Question

I’m migrating my blog to Jekyll and using MacVim to write my posts. I notice that I’m writing tags that look like this a lot:

{% highlight bash %}
chmod -R g+w test
{% endhighlight %}

or even…

{{ content }}

Is there a shortcut to insert the {{ }} or {% %} tags?

Note: I’m fairly new to Vim so any help is appreciated. I have Tim Pope’s Liquid plugin installed as well as the surround plugin.

Answer 1

You may want to take a look at ragtag by Tim Pope. It provides mappings like <c-x>= for {{ foo }} and <c-x>- for {% foo %}.

If you do not want ragtag and since you have surround installed you may want to create your own mappings. I suggest you create a ~/.vim/after/ftplugin/liquid.vim and put in the following:

let b:surround_45 = "{% \r %}"
let b:surround_61 = "{{ \r }}"

This will create surround mappings for <c-s>= and <c-s>- just like ragtag.