http://localhost:1313/tags/templates/ Recent content in Templates on Companionway Hugo en-us Sun, 15 Jul 2018 14:00:00 +0000 http://localhost:1313/post/vim_scriptable_templates/ Sun, 15 Jul 2018 14:00:00 +0000 http://localhost:1313/post/vim_scriptable_templates/ <h3 id="dynamic-vim-templates">Dynamic vim Templates</h3> <p>Vim (or vi in the anceint past) has been my partner in getting things done. Like an rich tool it has lots of features that go untapped or undiscovered. A few days ago I decided I wanted a script within a tempate to help build the &ldquo;front matter&rdquo; to my markdown (.md) files.</p> <p>The front matter looks like this:</p> <pre tabindex="0"><code>+++ author = &#34;&#34; comments = true date = &#34;2018-07-15 14:45:19&#34; draft = false image = &#34;&#34; share = true # slug = # tags = [ &#34;tag1&#34;, &#34;tag2&#34; ] title = &#34;vim_scriptable_templates&#34; +++ </code></pre><p>The challenge was to have vim write in the date for me in the needed format. And if you use hugo as your static web site generator as I do you may have found that it will silently ignore a new markdown file if the date is not formated correctly. It some testing to discover that but the bottom line is that I needed a way to script it for to avoid mistakes.</p> <p>Research to me to this tip source: <a href="http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_eval_to_create_dynamic_templates"> vim embedded scripts </a></p> http://localhost:1313/search/post/vim_scriptable_templates/ Sun, 15 Jul 2018 14:00:00 +0000 http://localhost:1313/search/post/vim_scriptable_templates/ <h3 id="dynamic-vim-templates">Dynamic vim Templates</h3> <p>Vim (or vi in the anceint past) has been my partner in getting things done. Like an rich tool it has lots of features that go untapped or undiscovered. A few days ago I decided I wanted a script within a tempate to help build the &ldquo;front matter&rdquo; to my markdown (.md) files.</p> <p>The front matter looks like this:</p> <pre tabindex="0"><code>+++ author = &#34;&#34; comments = true date = &#34;2018-07-15 14:45:19&#34; draft = false image = &#34;&#34; share = true # slug = # tags = [ &#34;tag1&#34;, &#34;tag2&#34; ] title = &#34;vim_scriptable_templates&#34; +++ </code></pre><p>The challenge was to have vim write in the date for me in the needed format. And if you use hugo as your static web site generator as I do you may have found that it will silently ignore a new markdown file if the date is not formated correctly. It some testing to discover that but the bottom line is that I needed a way to script it for to avoid mistakes.</p> <p>Research to me to this tip source: <a href="http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Use_eval_to_create_dynamic_templates"> vim embedded scripts </a></p> <p>I use autocommands in vim to load templates. The strategy here is to have vim recognize and respond when I start to write a new markdown (.md) file and run vim scripts where needed to dynamically fill in needed data. I will start here with writing the template. All my templates are in a directory I call <code>~/vinrc-files/</code>. Here is the contents of my .md file template named <code>~/vimrc-files/vimrc-md.tem</code>:</p> <pre tabindex="0"><code>+++ # author = &#34;-g-&#34; comments = true date = &#34;[:VIM_EVAL:]strftime(&#34;%Y-%m-%d %T&#34;)[:END_EVAL:]&#34; draft = false # image = &#34;img/myimage&#34; share = true # slug = # tags = [ &#34;tag1&#34;, &#34;tag2&#34; ] # Watch the title below and change as you desire title = &#34;[:VIM_EVAL:]expand(&#34;%:t:r&#34;)[:END_EVAL:]&#34; +++ </code></pre><p>For what it is worth, the inclusion of `</p>