mdvacca / file-templates

An Atom package for working with file templates.

File Templates

An Atom package for working with file templates.

Usage

Trigger File Templates: New Template from the command palette, give your template a name and hit enter. A copy of your active file is now stored in your template store.

Trigger File Templates: New File and select a template from the list, you will now be given a new file with the contents of the template.

Trigger File Templates: Update Template and select a template from the list, you will now be given a modal box where you can change the name & grammar of the template. There is also a button to edit the contents of the template which opens the file from the template store in a new tab.

Trigger File Templates: Delete File and select a template the list, this template will now be deleted.

Macros

You can add on of the predefined macros to your template, like this:

• @timestamp@: Will be replaced with current timestamp in ISO format (i.e. 2016-09-02T08:32:11.073Z)
• @author@: Will be replaced with your git config user.name
• @email@: Will be replaced with your git config user.email

To make @author@ and @email@ work in your project, it must be a GIT repository.

You can add custom macros to your init file like so

proccess.fileTemplates = {
  macros:
    foo: ->
      return 'new text here'
}

Config

The only config for file templates is the location it saves templates, by default this is ~/.atom/file-templates but you can set it to anything.

Planned Features

• Export/Sharing of templates
• Insert into current file