Tim Chase wrote:
[Richard Querin wrote:]
Anyway, one thing I'd like to be able to do is insert some
boilerplate text into a document - something like a standard
signature. Is there some way I can preload a buffer with this
text when I run Vim? Can this be done in the rc file? I'm sure
there is a way (with Vim there always seems to be) but I can't
seem to find out how.
In your vimrc, you can add a line something like
au BufNewFile *.txt $r ~/template.txt
where "*.txt" is the pattern to match. Thus, if you do:
:e nonexistant.txt
it will automatically read in the file "~/template.txt" at the bottom of
the file ("$").
[...]
Or, to insert the boilerplate after the cursor line at any time during
editing, use simply
:r ~/template.txt
A line number can be inserted between : and r to mean "insert after line n"
(or 0 to insert before first line, or $ to insert after last line, or... see
":help [range]").
Best regards,
Tony.
