Re: best library for data forms entry in vim

Hi all!

On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 09:14:13 +1100
asymptosis <asymptosis@posteo.net> wrote:

> >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:
> > ...
>
> Without specifying why you are constrained to only using Vim, it's hard to
> avoid pointing out that there are better ways to do this.
>
> Either m4 or mustach should be your friends unless you can explain why Vim is
> literally the only program that could possibly be used.
>

I can recommend *against* using m4, which although part of the POSIX standard,
is limited and vile in both syntax and behaviour. I have a page on my site with
a roundup of similar text-processing tools and links including preprocessors,
and template systems:

https://www.shlomifish.org/open-source/resources/text-processing-tools/

(Licence is https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ - share and enjoy. The
sources are here:
https://github.com/shlomif/shlomi-fish-homepage/blob/master/src/open-source/resources/text-processing-tools/index.xhtml.tt2
)

> Recommended reading:
>
> https://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/shell-tools.html
>

Heh, nice. Regarding awk and ESR, I wrote this blog post:
https://shlomifish.livejournal.com/1991.html reflecting on ESR's case against
awk on TAOUP.

Regards,

Shlomi Fish


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