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Asked: 2026-05-11T17:28:01+00:00

For example if I open a brand new file in vim it has the

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For example if I open a brand new file in vim it has the following text already in it:

/*
  The MIT License

  Copyright (c) 2009 Apphacker apphacker@gmail.com

  Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
  in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
  to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
  copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
  furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

  The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
  all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

  THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
  IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
  FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
  AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
  LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
  OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN
  THE SOFTWARE.
*/

Would be annoying to have to type/copy & paste it in for every new file.

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  1. Editorial Team

    How about creating a textfile ~/.vim/mit.txt that holds the MIT license? Then the following in .vimrc:

    map :mit :0r ~/.vim/mit.txt

    …so you only have to enter :mit for inserting the license.

    Or, if you really want this behavior all the time:

    autocmd BufNewFile *
\ 0r ~/.vim/mit.txt
augroup END
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