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I did, so I created this plugin.\n\nThis plugin provides a simple command to **open up a new vim buffer** based on a selected **template**, allowing **up to 20 placeholders** to be filled via the command arguments.\n\nPreboil works almost out-of-the-box, the only thing you have to do is telling Preboil where your templates are stored.\n\n---\n\n- [Installation](#installation)\n- [Usage](#usage)\n- [Documentation](#documentation)\n- [Roadmap](#roadmap)\n- [Feedback](#feedback)\n- [License](#license)\n\n---\n\n## Installation\n\nUse your favourite plugin manager.\n\nUsing [Vundle](https://github.com/VundleVim/Vundle.vim):\n\n\tcall vundle#begin()\n\tPlugin 'EightSQ/vim-preboil'\n\tcall vundle#end()\n\nThe only configuration you might want to set in your `.vimrc` is\n\n\tlet g:preboil_template_directory = '~/path/to/my/templates'\n\n---\n\n## Usage\n\nAt any point in your vim session, when you feel the time is right for a new preboiled document, you can use\n\n\t:Boil templatename.{tex|txt|...} buffername par0 par1 ...\n\nto open up a new buffer based on the selected template, with tokens **#PAR0** replaced accordingly.\n\nSay you have a template named `todo.txt` in your templates directory which looks like this:\n\n\tTodo-list for #PAR0/#PAR1/#PAR2\n\t-\n\t-\n\t-\n\nYou can now enter `:Boil todo.txt today.txt 20 10 18` into the vim commandline and you'll get\n\n\tTodo-list fir 20/10/18\n\t-\n\t-\n\t-\n\nin a buffer named **today.txt**.\n\n---\n\n## Documentation\n\n\t:h preboil\n\n---\n\n## Roadmap\n\n- [ ] Vader tests, Travis CI\n- [ ] Accepting Strings as parameter arguments\n- [ ] Support cold-start buffer-creation (like `vim +Boil ...`)\n- [ ] Directory-specific config-file system (like .preboil.yml)\n\t- [ ] Ability to fill parameters from the config file\n- [ ] Configuration of a global default template\n\n---\n\n## Feedback\n\nFeel free to add issue reports or feature requests. This encourages me to make futher improvements.\n\n---\n\n## License\n\nSee [here](https://github.com/EightSQ/vim-preboil/blob/master/LICENSE).\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Feightsq%2Fvim-preboil","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Feightsq%2Fvim-preboil","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Feightsq%2Fvim-preboil/lists"}