vim editor

siva balan · 02-08-2011, 05:02 AM

in MS word,
we can set The default text(as template) whenever we open it.
so we can avoid the repetitive typing.

is it possible in vim editor?

i need to type,

Code:

<html>
<body>
<script>

script goes here.......


</script>
</body>
</html>

whenever i write the new script..
i am repeating the above format..
is there any possiblity to set vim editor to display the above text as default?
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prodev05 · 02-08-2011, 05:09 AM

Yes it is possible

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sumeet inani · 02-08-2011, 05:51 AM

I think siva balan asked that suppose I ran
$vim 1.html #where 1.html does not exists
Then I should not get empty file to edit , instead file filled with code he has mentioned.

prodev05 , as you pointed I created file ~/.vim/template/template.html containing code mentioned above
Now I ran
$vim 1.html
Still 1.html is empty

prodev05 · 02-08-2011, 05:53 AM

create your type of template in the template.* file.

sumeet inani · 02-09-2011, 02:37 AM

I have extracted the contents of vim-template-0.2.1.zip to ~/.vim/template.

Code:

$tree ~/.vim/template
/home/lxuser/.vim/template
|-- doc
|   |-- template.jax
|   `-- template.txt
|-- plugin
|   `-- template.vim
`-- template.html
$cat ~/.vim/template/template.html 
<html>
</html>

I am using ubuntu 10.04.

Can you tell what I did wrong & what I should have done ?

sumeet inani · 02-10-2011, 03:49 AM

I found this -> http://code.google.com/p/lh-vim/wiki/muTemplate

I downloaded 4 vimballs namely - lh-map-tools-1.1.2.vba , lh-vim-lib-2.2.4 , searchInRuntime-2.1.8.vba & mu-template-2.2.1.vba
Then opened them in vim & ran

Code:

:source %

Now if you create new file ending in c then it will be filled with

Code:

//========================================================================
  2 /**@file        /home/lxuser/.vim/vimball/try.c
  3  * @author      lxuser
  4  * @version     «version»
  5  * @date
  6  *      Created:        Thursday 10 February 2011 03:13:36 PM IST \n
  7  *      Last Update:    Thursday 10 February 2011 03:13:36 PM IST
  8  */
  9 /*------------------------------------------------------------------------
 10  * Description: «description»
 11  * 
 12  *------------------------------------------------------------------------
 13  * History:     «history»
 14  * TODO:        «missing features»
 15  *========================================================================
 16  */
 17 
 18 
 19 /*===========================================================================*/
 20 /*===============================[ Includes ]================================*/
 21 /*===========================================================================*/
 22 #include "0"
 23 «Includes»
 24 
 25 
 26 /*===========================================================================*/
 27 /*==================================[ «» ]===================================*/
 28 /*===========================================================================*/
 29 «other stuff»

Isn't this great !
You can customise the default files : ~/.vim/after/template/<extension>.template

If you want to uninstall it
then run inside vim

Code:

::RmVimball Same_File_name_with_path

Happy to help