Re: Date in a boilerplate file

Thank you very much for this suggestion. I think I will map this 's' command to an available <F...> key. An additional question, if you do not mind: why

submatch(1), submatch(1)

and not

submatch(1), submatch(2)

Thank you again!

guido

On 2020-06-23 09:56, Guido Milanese wrote:

> 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.

Assuming the notation <var> for your variables, you could do
(automate) something like the following

  :%s/<TODAY>/\=strftime('%c')/ge
  :%s/<AUTHOR>/\=$USER/ge

If you have a lot of them, you could simplify them to a single
replacement with something like

  :%s/<\([^>]*\)>/\=get({'TODAY':strftime('%c'), 'AUTHOR':$USER}, submatch(1), submatch(1))

putting as many tokens and their respective values as you want in
that hard-coded dictionary/mapping.

-tim

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