How can I automatically add some skeleton code when creating a new file with vim

Question

When creating a new file with vim, I would like to automatically add some skeleton code.

For example, when creating a new xml file, I would like to add the first lin

Answer 1

Here are two examples using python scripting.

Add something like this in your .vimrc or another file sourced by your .vimrc:

augroup Xml
  au BufNewFile *.xml :python import vim
  au BufNewFile *.xml :python vim.current.buffer[0:0] = ['']
  au BufNewFile *.xml :python del vim
augroup END

fu s:InsertHtmlSkeleton()
  python import vim
  python vim.current.buffer[0:0] = ['', "", "", "  ", "", "", "", "", ""]
  python del vim
endfu

augroup Html
  au BufNewFile *.html call InsertHtmlSkeleton()
augroup END