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Asked: 2026-05-11T13:38:39+00:00

I’d like to be able to do something like this in vim (you can

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I’d like to be able to do something like this in vim (you can assume v7+ if it helps).

Type in a command like this (or something close)

:inshtml

and have vim dump the following into the current file at the current cursor location

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC '-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN'     'http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd'> <html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>     <head>         <title></title>     </head>     <body>     </body> </html>

Can I write a vim function do this is? Is there a better way?

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  1. I do that by keeping under my vim folder a set of files which then I insert using the r command (which inserts the contents of a file, at the current location if no line number is passed) from some function:

    function! Class()     ' ~/vim/cpp/new-class.txt is the path to the template file     r~/vim/cpp/new-class.txt endfunction

    This is very practical – in my opinion – when you want to insert multi-line text. Then you can, for example, map a keyboard shortcut to call your function:

    nmap ^N :call Class()<CR>
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