Re: [kinda ot] writing the date into a file when saving it
From: Peder Blom (dion_at_bredband.net)
Date: 01/27/04
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Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 16:50:01 +0100 To: rob_spellberg <emailrob@emailrob.com>
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 15:59:19 -0600
rob_spellberg <emailrob@emailrob.com> wrote:
> dear sir or madam ---
>
> this may be a vi question, but i'd like to be editor-independent, if
> possible.
>
> i want to self-document source code files when i write them to disk.
>
> this would include such things as path and modification time.
>
> ideally, within vi, i would like to have :w run a script [ that i
> would write ]
> that does exactly what i want.
>
> for years, i've been doing this more or less haphazardly during
> development,
> until i was satisfied that the file was in its final form.
> then i would manually get it right and leave it alone.
> but i'm writing too much right now to keep doing this manually and
> i'm something of a nut for documentation.
>
> its easy enough to write a sed script to find a unique string and do a
> replacement. its only slightly more involved to write a glorified
> version of touch
> [ which is kinda what i want, actually ].
>
> maybe what i want is to go into vi [ or ex, or wherever ],
> find where :w is processed and cause it to look for a script to
> run.
>
> i know about :so.
> i know about !command.
> neither are really "it".
>
> i've been googling for about an hour and coming up almost completely
> empty. maybe there's a jargon word for what i want that i don't know.
>
> so to get to the question: what do you folks do?
>
> rob spellberg
> woodstock, illinois
>
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I guess this is not what you are after, but have you considered mapping
keys in vi? E.g. something like
:map = 1GO^[!!date;whoami;hostname^M1G3J:w^M
Now, pressing "=" in command mode adds a line at the top of the file
with current date, user and host, then saves the file. You could be
creative with !command, write your own script or c-program to generate
input.
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