I took the excellent answer by ib above and expanded it as follows. My goal was to use vim to create new markdown files as needed for a wiki (in this case a Gollum wiki)
I first tried:
map <silent> <leader>cf :call writefile([], expand("<cfile>"), "t")<cr>`
the above does work as stated in the answer. However, at first I thought it was not working because I did not actually see the file opening in vim. Using the second bit of code below will open a new file - this is more what I was looking for. So I combined them and tried:
map <leader>cf :e <cfile><cr>
but that does not work for a wiki because when you try to create a new file in the wiki using syntax like [[the-new-file]]
the wiki syntax does not allow for the extension of the file in the brackets. However, Vim needs to know the extension when creating a new file for this to work. In this case I used:
map <leader>cf :e <cfile>.md<cr>
so I could create new markdown files. There are ways to further customize this (for example by not hardcoding the extension) but the above works fine for my needs. If I ever need another extension (for example to save a .wiki file) I will probably just take the simple route and make another map like:
map <leader>cwf :e <cfile>.wiki<cr>
As a side benefit you can use the same command to open the already existing markdown file (the standard gf
command will not work here because the file extension is missing).
1+1 for teaching
<cfile>
instead of<C-r><C-f>
– sehe – 2011-04-29T08:39:04.023