Vim Auto Indent with newline

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How do I get vim to place the cursor within the braces starting on a new line, ie with | denoting the cursor position :

class {
  |
}

right now with my settings it only does this

class {
|}

I got this in my .vimrc file
set autoindent shiftwidth=2 tabstop=2 noexpandtab

Basically I just want how a normal IDE would indent it.

update:

I found how to do this with inoremap { {<CR>}<Esc>O

Best Answer

I have Ubuntu 12.04 and I found no vimrc file in home directory. Global vimrc file was in /etc/vim/vimrc.
There was almost nothing in this file. So for me it worked to add this 3 lines to the end of /etc/vim/vimrc

set autoindent
set cindent
inoremap { {<CR>}<up><end><CR>

When you will type { next time it will be changed by combination {, Enter, }, up, end, Enter. cindent and autoindent will add required amount of Tab's.
P.S. I'm not good in tuning up vim so some explanations may be not so accurate. It's how I think it works.

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