Re: Date in a boilerplate file

On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 09:56:34AM -0700, Guido Milanese wrote:
>In a project I am developing, I have written some boilerplate files to be
>used as headers for Markdown/LaTeX documents. One of the lines contains the
>document date, and ideally it should be:
>
>date: <TODAY>
>
>I know how to insert date from command line, but is it possible to embed
>the command in the boilerplate file and have it transformed into the real
>date? I tried autocmd to no success -- clearly I have not really understood
>how to use it!
>The same applies to other fields (such as AUTHOR), but the DATE field is
>the most important one.

I would have the template as you have it above, and an autocmd on "BufNewFile *.md,*.latex" or whatever, that inserts it, with "0r file", then does a substitution of "<TODAY>" with "\=system('date')" or whatever you want. It would have been quicker to just write it than explain it:

autocmd BufNewFile *.md,*.latex 0r $HOME/.vim/templates/markdown-latex.txt | %s/<DATE>/\=system('date')->trim()/eg | normal G

Or something :)

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