Thanks for the suggestions. I'll try Maxim's approach first.

On Jul 27, 4:56 pm, Ben Fritz <fritzophre...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 27, 2:07 pm, at <atorgovit...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm using a very nice template plugin called tSkeleton. Right now I'm
> > operating it using an autocmd in my .vimrc:
> >     autocmd BufNewFile *.f90      TSkeletonSetup fortran.f90
>
> > This works great when I start a new buffer from within .vim. However
> > sometimes I want to touch and name a new file and then open it
> > directly by double clicking on it in my GUI (a boorish practice, I
> > know ;).
>
> > So what I would like is an autocmd for the event that a new buffer is
> > entered AND that buffer is empty. Having checked the documentation on
> > autocmd, I don't think such an event exists. So is there an elegant
> > way to test for whether the file is blank or not?
>
> It's actually really easy to trigger your template manually. After
> loading your empty file in Vim, just do this:
>
> :doautocmd BufNewFile
>
> You could even map a key to do this if you need it often enough.
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