All,
I need to quickly enter data for thousands of structured documents - ie:
where I know the bulk of the document but there are placeholders for
specific variables. Think something like this:
Dear <person>
We received your order for <name>, price <price>, quantity <quantity>,
total <total>.
Please look over the above information to make sure that this is
correct.
Anyways, I was hoping vim could do something like this, where it could
limit the input for the user to just the categories - leaving the form
intact, and where the different inputs could be linked so that some values
could be calculated via the values in other inputs.
In other words, an efficient form of excel.
Is there internal support for something like this in vim? I'd love to keep
all the functionality for this internal to one template so that I could run
vim with a template argument and the name of the file that will be saved:
1. vim -t <template> form_name.txt
and the user would enter into a document that would be constricted just to
the fields needed to be entered and after they were done would
automatically be saved.
If not internal to vim, is there a decent vimscript that could provide this
functionality? I've looked at the various forms libraries on www.vim.org
and all of them were either incomplete, unsupported or focused on UI
support, not data entry.
Thanks much for any help on this, this would save quite a few man months of
time.
Ed
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