Re: best library for data forms entry in vim

2020-11-18 Thread BPJ
Den ons 18 nov. 2020 22:14hor...@gmail.com skrev: > BPJ, > > Thanks for the feedback and idea, and i'll check out your tool. > Thanks. Note that I just pushed a rather vital fix for a bug which I introduced earlier today! /bpj You know, that's my fallback plan, to script it up and do substitut

Re: best library for data forms entry in vim

2020-11-18 Thread hor...@gmail.com
BPJ, Thanks for the feedback and idea, and i'll check out your tool. You know, that's my fallback plan, to script it up and do substitutions based off of user input if necessary. I've done something very similar before, and its workable. But I submit to you that being able to do it via an edit

Re: Happy birthday!

2020-11-18 Thread 'Suresh Govindachar' via vim_use
On 11/2/2020 10:19 AM, Bram Moolenaar wrote: Hello Vim users, 29 years ago the very first version of Vim was built and distributed. And Vim is more popular than ever before! So, what's going on these days? VIM 9 DEVELOPMENTS - MAKING VIM SCRIPT FASTER AND EASIER TO USE This is a big proje

Re: best library for data forms entry in vim

2020-11-18 Thread BPJ
Den tis 17 nov. 2020 23:12hor...@gmail.com skrev: > I'm not sure I made myself clear - this particular application needs to > be interactive. > > In other words, you enter in values in one location, it calculates > derivative values in another location, and you keep working on it until you > are

Re: best library for data forms entry in vim

2020-11-18 Thread Gabriele
On 18/11/2020 9.14, Shlomi Fish wrote: I can recommend *against* using m4, which although part of the POSIX standard, is limited and vile in both syntax and behaviour. I have a page on my site with a roundup of similar text-processing tools and links including preprocessors, and template systems:

Re: best library for data forms entry in vim

2020-11-18 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi all! On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 09:14:13 +1100 asymptosis wrote: > >I need to quickly enter data for thousands of structured documents - ie: > >where I know the bulk of the document but there are placeholders for > >specific variables. Think something like this: > > ... > > Without specifying why