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

It can work with snipmate too:

augroup documentation
    au!
    au BufNewFile *.py :call ExecuteSnippet('docs')
augroup END

function! ExecuteSnippet(name)
    execute "normal! i" . a:name . "\=TriggerSnippet()\"
endfunction

with "docs" the snippet to trigger.

It works with multi-snippets but then the :messages window appears and it's cumbersome.