Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Re: best library for data forms entry in vim

>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.

Recommended reading:

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

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