Reducing Boilerplate With Vim Templates

Nikola Đuza
Level Up Coding
Published in
3 min readMay 5, 2021

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If you’re a terminal junkie like myself, you are going to love this one. Today we are going to explain how you can avoid writing boilerplate code without any plugins. The feature we are about to explore is called templates or skeletons in Vim.

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Skeletons and Vim

Don’t get scared, skeleton files (or templates) are just normal files. They are called that because…

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