Re: best library for data forms entry in vim

2020-11-19 Thread Shlomi Fish
Hi Gabriele, On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 09:36:30 +0100 Gabriele wrote: > 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

Re: best library for data forms entry in vim

2020-11-19 Thread hor...@gmail.com
You know, the more I'm thinking about it, the more I think vim needs an internal templating system. As it stands, I get how this is done in vim now - you use vimscript to create the template for you, in other words you need to program the look and feel. It has a lot in common with approaches l

Re: best library for data forms entry in vim

2020-11-19 Thread Ruben Safir
On 11/19/20 1:08 PM, hor...@gmail.com wrote: > You know, the more I'm thinking about it, the more I think vim needs an > internal templating system.  no it doesn't, so don't thnink about it so much. vim is fine, if not already over built a little. -- So many immigrant groups have swept through

Re: best library for data forms entry in vim

2020-11-19 Thread rwmit...@gmail.com
This discussion comes up repeatedly (so shows using the conversation search in google groups). One suggestion was to use a split panel. One panel would have user entered keywords and the other the combined document. When saving the keywords, a script would auto run to do the substitutions and