On Tuesday, June 23, 2020 at 11:56:34 AM UTC-5, Guido Milanese wrote: > > In a project I am developing, I have written some boilerplate files to be > used as headers for Markdown/LaTeX documents. 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. > Thank you! > guido (Northern Italy) > > > You have some good suggestions already that use hard-coded substitute commands in the autocmd. A more versatile method would be to embed the expressions you want evaluated right in your template file: https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Use_eval_to_create_dynamic_templates
Of course there are also a wide variety of template plugins that might be a good fit for you, too. -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/e14f3cb1-e4a4-4488-9879-ca2b377b005eo%40googlegroups.com.
