Well, I misspoke a little. I was able to get a skeleton loaded, but now I want to update the modified date and time whenever the file is saved. This example is actually in the vim help menu, but I get an error.
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:42 AM, Andrew Stewart <[email protected]>wrote: > > 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 > > ------- > http://airbladesoftware.com > > > -- > You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > -- You received this message from the "vim_mac" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
