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Asked: 2026-05-15T17:16:51+00:00

I am trying to set up some useful coding templates in vim, for example

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I am trying to set up some useful coding templates in vim, for example I have mapped 

map `cl iclass <+CLASSNAME+><CR>{<CR><Esc>Iprotected:<CR><+PROTECTED MEMBERS+><CR><Esc>Ipublic:<CR><+PUBLIC INTERFACE+><CR>};<CR><++><CR><Esc>3kv<0v3k<2k

so that when I type `cl in vim I get

class <+CLASSNAME+>
{
protected:
    <+PROTECTED MEMBERS+>
public:
    <+PUBLIC INTERFACE+>
};
<++>

(so that I can jump between the <+ +> tags with C-j). This works fine, but I find the above remap pretty obscure. Is there a way to enter what I want vim to type in “verbatim mode”? So I would want to write something like

map `cl i{VERBATIMSTART}class <+CLASSNAME+>
{
protected:
    <+PROTECTED MEMBERS+>
public:
    <+PUBLIC INTERFACE+>
};
<++>{VERBATIMEND}

?

Thank you
Paul

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  1. Editorial Team

    I don’t know if there is such a “verbatim”-mode for mappings.
    I, personally, would use one of the snippet-plugins to do this.
    See http://www.vim.org and search
    for “snippet”. I have not tried all of them (just SnippetsMgr 😉 ),
    but I suppose that they are handier to define multi-line-snippets.

    Some of the available snippet-plugins on vim.org: snippets.vim ,
    snippetsEmu, snipMate, SnippetsMgr, etc.

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