One of my favourite C++11 features are lambdas.

The syntax is a bit cumbersome, but it was the best approach the committee could take without creating a new sub-language. Every part of the syntax has a reason for why it exists.

But, it still is a bit ugly, and can influence readability of the surrounding code quite a bit.

Lambdas in C++11
Lambdas in C++11

The thing that annoys me the most is the lambda head - the capture block and the arguments it takes. Those are very important when writing the code, but not (that much) when reading it.

My solution for this? The conceal feature of Vim.

C++11 Lambdas concealed
C++11 Lambdas concealed

The good thing about lambdas is that they are (meant to) be used as local anonymous functions. That means that, while reading other parts of the code, you don’t actually need to know what the lambda is capturing, nor which are its arguments. So, it doesn’t hurt to hide them, right?

Naturally, when you want to edit the lambda head, Vim shows the actual contents of line, and not just some strange Greek symbol. :)

This also lowers the desire to use the potentially problematic [&] and [=] as the capture block, instead of explicitly capturing the variables that you need.

Edit: The code to achieve this:

.vimrc:
    set conceallevel=1
.vim/after/syntax/cpp/cpp.vim
    syn match cpp11_lambda "[[a-zA-Z0-9&= ,]*] *(.*)( *{)\@=" conceal cchar=λ
    syn match cpp11_lambda "[[a-zA-Z0-9&= ,]*]( *{)\@=" conceal cchar=λ