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Coda Clips for Vim

Answer 1

+8 A:

For various editors, there's a functionality called '''snippets''' which tab expands the beginnings of common text (like a HTML div, or C function definition) into a skeleton for that code.

There's a couple vim plugins that present this functionality. Two off the top of my bookmark list:

I heard of another plugin for quick HTML editing that uses snippets recently:

zencoding

Check those out and see if they're near what you're looking for.

Also, you can define a default BufNewFile action in vim - which lets you read in a skeleton for a file if it doesn't already exist automatically.

                                                *skeleton* *template*
To read a skeleton (template) file when opening a new file: >

  :autocmd BufNewFile  *.c      0r ~/vim/skeleton.c
  :autocmd BufNewFile  *.h      0r ~/vim/skeleton.h
  :autocmd BufNewFile  *.java   0r ~/vim/skeleton.java

Put those (or the equivalent) in your .vimrc (w/o the leading colon) to have them set up automatically every time you run vim.

rampion 2010-05-10 16:39:02

Thanks a billion, snipMate is exactly what I was looking for. I'll keep your response in mind, for later on, when I get to know Vim better. Thanks!

XLR3204S 2010-05-10 17:24:38

+1 for SnipMate.

jeffjose 2010-05-10 18:13:16

Answer 2

+1 A:

As well as the various snippet plugins, Vim also has an abbreviation feature built in, using the :ab[breviate] command.

For example you can define this:

:ab <h <head>^M</head>^M<body>^M<\body>

Then when you type <h<SPACE> it will expand into the full text. The ^M in the example above are actually carriage returns inserted in the string definition with <ctrl-V><RETURN>.

Dave Kirby 2010-05-12 06:48:28

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