On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 15:59:19 -0600 rob_spellberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> dear sir or madam --- > > this may be a vi question, but i'd like to be editor-independent, if > possible. > > i want to self-document source code files when i write them to disk. > > this would include such things as path and modification time. > > ideally, within vi, i would like to have :w run a script [ that i > would write ] > that does exactly what i want. > > for years, i've been doing this more or less haphazardly during > development, > until i was satisfied that the file was in its final form. > then i would manually get it right and leave it alone. > but i'm writing too much right now to keep doing this manually and > i'm something of a nut for documentation. > > its easy enough to write a sed script to find a unique string and do a > replacement. its only slightly more involved to write a glorified > version of touch > [ which is kinda what i want, actually ]. > > maybe what i want is to go into vi [ or ex, or wherever ], > find where :w is processed and cause it to look for a script to > run. > > i know about :so. > i know about !command. > neither are really "it". > > i've been googling for about an hour and coming up almost completely > empty. maybe there's a jargon word for what i want that i don't know. > > so to get to the question: what do you folks do? > > rob spellberg > woodstock, illinois > > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" I guess this is not what you are after, but have you considered mapping keys in vi? E.g. something like :map = 1GO^[!!date;whoami;hostname^M1G3J:w^M Now, pressing "=" in command mode adds a line at the top of the file with current date, user and host, then saves the file. You could be creative with !command, write your own script or c-program to generate input. _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"