How to load another file's content to the current file in Vim?

Question

As title, any convenient way?

I especially need it for some cvs/git commit or sendmail to load a template comment. I think it is a vi environment, not Vim.

Answer 1

at the VIM command prompt:

:read new_file 

or for short:

:r new_file 

This will insert the contents of new_file under where the cursor is. For instance if this is the contents of new_file:

 I do not like green eggs and ham  I do not like you sam I am 

And this is the text you're editing:

 I meant what I said and I said what I meant An elephant's faithful one hundred percent. 

And your cursor is on the first line and you type:

:read new_file               

Then your buffer will be:

 I meant what I said and I said what I meant I do not like green eggs and ham  I do not like you sam I am An elephant's faithful one hundred percent.