File creation template

[lcp5y3]

File creation template

As former user of Vim, one thing that I miss, is templates/lang.tpl.
This template are used to creating a new file with default values.

Example "py.tpl:

#!/usr/bin/env python3
#encoding utf8 

"""
project name:
date: FDATE
author:
description:


if __name__ == "__main__":
    print("Hello")

The idea, if I type the command :open main.py and there is no main.py available in path, it will use the py.tpl to create a new one.

[el-pendeloco]

Yeah I'd like that too. Something more granular though, because I don't think one template per language would cut it. For example, I'd like to have a template for a new typescript web component, one for a wrapped Zod schema, and so on and so forth.
Ideally, it would support passing variables and therefore running a templating engine under the hood.
I'd love that feature and it would probably require a bit more work (with many templates possible) then mentioned.

Maybe a new command: :from-template element.tpl toto.ts -v component-name=BigComponent, although not sure about the syntax. This will be possible with the upcoming extension plugins, I believe. So maybe not something for core helix 🤷

[kumawatdarshan]

sounds like plugin territory