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I'd like to be able to do something like this in vim (you can assume v7+ if it helps).
Type in a command like this (or something close)
:inshtml and have vim dump the following into the current file at the current cursor location
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> </body> </html> Can I write a vim function do this is? Is there a better way?
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I do that by keeping under my vim folder a set of files which then I insert using the r command (which inserts the contents of a file, at the current location if no line number is passed) from some function:
function! Class() " ~/vim/cpp/new-class.txt is the path to the template file r~/vim/cpp/new-class.txt endfunction This is very practical - in my opinion - when you want to insert multi-line text. Then you can, for example, map a keyboard shortcut to call your function:
nmap ^N :call Class()<CR> Late to the party, just for future reference, but another way of doing it is to create a command, e.g.
:command Inshtml :normal i your text here^V<ESC> The you can call it as
:Inshtml Explanation: the command runs in command mode, and you switch to normal mode with :normal, then to insert mode with 'i', what follows the 'i' is your text and you finish with escape, which is entered as character by entering ^V
It is also possible to add arguments, e.g.
:command -nargs=1 Inshtml :normal i You entered <args>^V<ESC> where <args> (entered literally as is) will be replaced with the actual arguments, and you call it with
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