[ILUG] Question for Vim gurus

[Garth Fitzmaurice]

On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 09:33:34AM +0100, Rory Winston wrote:
> what I'd like to be able to do is to place the cursor on a line containing a subprocedure, hit a key, and Vim to generate an automatically formatted comment block, e.g. for 
> # Name : foo
> # Author : blah
> # Last Modified: whenever
> Whenever I hit a certain key. I'm not really sure how to do this though, 

 Well, I dont exactly come into the class of people described in the
subject, but you might want to take a look at http://www.vim.org/why.html
.
 From the above webpage:

   Macro (Map) Recording
          Vi users who write "mappings" to abbreviate a series of
          commands know how tedious it can be to remember the keystrokes
          for this. Vim makes it easy with "macro recording": The letter
          'q' (which is unused in Vi, btw) is used to start the
          recording; the next letter is the name of a register which is
          to store the keystrokes. Whatever you type after that is stored
          within the register until you type another 'q'. That's it. You
          can then play back this sequence with the command '@' followed
          by the register letter/name.
          Example:
          

        qa              Start recording into register 'a'
        G               jump to last line of current buffer
        ?^-- $^M        search backward for a line with sigdashes
        d/^$^M          delete unto next empty line
        q               end recording




 Hope this helps,

  Regards,
   Garth