On 20 May 2010, at 15:02, David Reed wrote:
> Ultimately, I would like to be able to open a new .tex,.html,.c file and have
> it load a skeleton that automatically has the date created in the comment
> header as well as any other information.
>
> To this end my first attempt is just to have a file automatically add "I
> added this" at the top. This is the code I put in my vimrc file and nothing
> is happening.
>
> :autocmd FileWritePre normal iI added this<Esc>
>
> Not sure what I am doing wrong. Thanks for any help.
Try the BufNewFile event:
autocmd BufNewFile normal iIadded this
See :help autocmd-events for more information about which events fire when.
I also think you don't need <Esc>, but I'm not 100% sure about this.
Regards,
Andy Stewart
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