Thank you very much for this suggestion. I think I will map this 's'
command to an available <F...> key. An additional question, if you do not
mind: why
submatch(1), submatch(1)
and not
submatch(1), submatch(2)
Thank you again!
guido
On 2020-06-23 09:56, Guido Milanese wrote:
> > One of the lines contains the document date, and ideally it should
> > be:
> >
> > date: <TODAY>
> >
> > I know how to insert date from command line, but is it possible to
> > embed the command in the boilerplate file and have it transformed
> > into the real date? I tried autocmd to no success -- clearly I have
> > not really understood how to use it!
> > The same applies to other fields (such as AUTHOR), but the DATE
> > field is the most important one.
>
> Assuming the notation <var> for your variables, you could do
> (automate) something like the following
>
> :%s/<TODAY>/\=strftime('%c')/ge
> :%s/<AUTHOR>/\=$USER/ge
>
> If you have a lot of them, you could simplify them to a single
> replacement with something like
>
> :%s/<\([^>]*\)>/\=get({'TODAY':strftime('%c'), 'AUTHOR':$USER},
> submatch(1), submatch(1))
>
> putting as many tokens and their respective values as you want in
> that hard-coded dictionary/mapping.
>
> -tim
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