This is a plugin intended for saving time typing or copy and pasting from other sources. Right now is more like a snippet plugin.

I created this plugin to help me avoiding coping and pastig from other files. I tried to use the plugin of nvimdev but didn't work as i still use a vimscript init file.

As such, i'm triyng to implement the same features from his plugin

For using this plugin install with a plugin manager

For using this plugin you need to set up some variables in your .vimrc/vim.init

let g:template_dir: for specifing the directory where you store your templates let g:author for the author name substitution in the templates let g:email for inserting your designated email in your template

You define this substitutions in your template as the following

• {{_author_}}
• {{_email_}}
• {{_file_name_}}
• {{_upper_file_}}
• {{_date_}}(not implemented yet)
• {{_cursor_}}(not implemented yet)

You could also add custom substitutions in the source file as this is defined as a dictionary.

And for inserting your formated template use the command: :Template (name of the template file) (name of the file)

The primary use i will give this plugin is for rapidly creating templates(duh) for C++ and $\LaTeX$ documents: here's are the examples

my g:template_dir is set as ~/Templates(it scans dirs recursively!)

located at ~/Templates/TeX/Tikz/tikz_mindmap.tex

A\documentclass[border=10pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{geometry}

\usetikzlibrary{mindmap}

\author{ {{_author_}} }
%{{_date_}}
\geometry{landscape, margin=1cm}


\begin{document}
\begin{center}
\begin{tikzpicture}[small mindmap, grow cyclic,every node/.style=concept, concept color=red!80, text=black!90,
    level 1/.append style={level distance=4cm,sibling angle=90},
    level 2/.append style={level distance=3cm,sibling angle=45},
    level 3/.append style={level distance=2cm,sibling angle=45}]
    \node{ {{_file_name_}} }
        child[concept color=purple!60] { node { {{_cursor_}} } }
    ;
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{center}
\end{document}

The resulting of the command: :Template tikz_mindmap.tex foo is:

\documentclass[border=10pt]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{geometry}

\usetikzlibrary{mindmap}

\author{ supercentinel }
%2019-01-01
\geometry{landscape, margin=1cm}


\begin{document}
\begin{center}
\begin{tikzpicture}[small mindmap, grow cyclic,every node/.style=concept, concept color=red!80, text=black!90,
    level 1/.append style={level distance=4cm,sibling angle=90},
    level 2/.append style={level distance=3cm,sibling angle=45},
    level 3/.append style={level distance=2cm,sibling angle=45}]
    \node{ foo }
        child[concept color=purple!60] { node { {{_cursor_}} } }
    ;
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{center}
\end{document}

Generic template for a class file located at ~/Templates/C++/class.hpp

//{{_author_}} {{_email_}} {{_date_}}
#ifndef {{_upper_file_}}_HPP
#define {{_upper_file_}}_HPP

class {{_file_name_}} {
private:
    {{_cursor_}}
public:
    {{_file_name_}}();
    ~{{_file_name_}}();
};

#endif // {{_upper_file_}}_HPP

The resulting of the command: :Template class.hpp foo is:

//supercentinel [email protected] 2019-01-01
#ifndef FOO_HPP
#define FOO_HPP

class foo {
private:
    {{_cursor_}}
public:
    foo();
    ~foo();
};

#endif // FOO_HPP

• implement the cursor function
• implement the date function