On Sep 16, 12:46 am, Gary Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2011-09-15, Stanley Rice wrote: > > > I am sorry that I didn't fully express my question. In short, all I > > want to do > > it to insert a string , i.e."Modified:" in the first line of a newly > > open file. > > Is that possible? > > au BufNewFile *.txt put! ='Modified:' > > where you should change the file pattern "*.txt" to match the type > of file you want this for. >
Yes, or follow my suggestions. :help skeleton tells you exactly how to read in a file's content to automatically add it to new files. The wiki link I gave shows how to expand this idea to allow Vim to do some automatic processing like adding a current timestamp or date or whatever. The put! command given by Gary should also work, it's just a different method which will work well for very small file templates, such as adding a single "modified" line only. -- You received this message from the "vim_use" 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
