On 11/17/20 3:24 PM, rwmit...@gmail.com wrote: > I would think sed is best choice as the entire substitution could be > scripted. >
LISP > On Tuesday, November 17, 2020 at 2:40:26 PM UTC-5 hor...@gmail.com wrote: > > All, > > 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: > > Dear <person> > > We received your order for <name>, price <price>, > quantity <quantity>, total <total>. > > Please look over the above information to make sure that this is > correct. > > I was hoping vim could do something like this, where it could limit > the input for the user to just the categories - leaving the form > intact, and where the different inputs could be linked so that some > values could be calculated via the values in other inputs. > > In other words, an efficient form of excel. > > Anyways I was looking at vim.org <http://vim.org/>, and there are a > number of forms libraries there but at first glance I'm not sure > which one is the most supported, user friendly, or overall functional. > > So my question is what is my best bet? this would save many > man-months worth of time and I was actually hoping that something > like this would be supported natively in vim itself - but at first > glance I don't see anything like this. > Any pointers on this would be greatly appreciated. > > Ed > > (ps - > > My ideal interface would be something integrated into vim itself > where I could embed pieces of perl or python code in the fields - > and have the values of variables be set when users enter in these > fields. Something like: > > Dear {{ $person }}, > > We received your order for {{ $name }}, price {{ $price }}, > quantity {{ $quantity }}, total {{ sub { $price * $quantity } }}. > > but if there is an external form library that would do the > equivalent I'd be happy to use it. > ) > > -- > -- > You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. > Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. > For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "vim_use" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <mailto:vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/4990ea22-e094-48e4-8609-64b47dae68f9n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/4990ea22-e094-48e4-8609-64b47dae68f9n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches mythological proportions in the mind of the world - RI Safir 1998 http://www.mrbrklyn.com DRM is THEFT - We are the STAKEHOLDERS - RI Safir 2002 http://www.nylxs.com - Leadership Development in Free Software http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources - Unpublished Archive http://www.coinhangout.com - coins! http://www.brooklyn-living.com Being so tracked is for FARM ANIMALS and and extermination camps, but incompatible with living as a free human being. -RI Safir 2013 -- -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. Do not top-post! Type your reply below the text you are replying to. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "vim_use" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vim_use+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/vim_use/c9b21037-3235-167b-8537-e9982981e499%40my.liu.edu.
