VIMPLATE(1)

💖 VIMPLATE(1) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to vimplate — it's the vim template system, it lives in the Perl docs under "User Contributed Perl Documentation", and it is literally here to make your templates pop off. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

vimplate — the vim template system. no cap, that's the whole name. 🎀

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📦 DEPENDS on PACKAGES 📦

• Template-Toolkit — http://search.cpan.org/~abw/Template-Toolkit-2.14

okay so fr fr, you need Template-Toolkit. please install Template-Toolkit on your system before you come crying to me. 🫶

not optional, bestie. it's giving "mandatory".

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⚙️ DEPENDS on SETTINGS ⚙️

• variable HOME

on unix/bsd/linux the variable home is set. on Windows please set the variable home to the value where _vimplaterc should be locatet. 💅

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

vimplate <-template=<template>> [-out=<file>] [-user=<user>]
[-dir=<dir>] [-config=<file>]
vimplate <-createconfig>
vimplate <-listtemplates>
vimplate <-listusers>
vimplate <-version>
vimplate <-help|-h|-?>
vimplate <-man>

like, pick one of those lines and go off. 🌈

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -help|-h|-? — print a brief help message and exit. your little emergency SOS, it's giving "just tell me what to do". 😭
• -man — print the manual page and exit. yes bestie, the manual. the one you're reading. inception vibes. 🦋
• -version — print the version and exit. quick little "who are you" moment. ⭐
• -createconfig — write a vimplate config to $HOME/.vimplaterc or %HOME%\_vimplaterc (on Windows) and exit. setting up your lil home base. 🏠💖
• -dir|d=<templatedir> — search templatefiles in <templatedir>. tell it where to look, queen. 👑
• -listtemplate — print the avaible templates and exit. the whole menu, served on a plate. 🍓
• -listusers — print the avaible users and exit. everyone's here, it's a party. 🎀
• -user|u=<username> — use the information form user <username> while parsing templates. 🪄
• -template=<templatefile> — use the <templatefile>. the main character of the whole operation, ngl. ✨

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

vimplate print a spezified template to standard output.

that's it, that's the serve. it prints the template you asked for straight to stdout. periodt. 💜

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💖 AUTHOR 💖

Urs Stotz <stotz@gmx.ch>

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🎀 COPYRIGHT 🎀

Copyright (c) 2004-2005, Urs Stotz <stotz@gmx.ch>

All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• perl(1)
• Template(3)

go read those too, they're iconic in their own right. 🧚

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okay bestie that's the whole vibe check 💖 this page came to you via perl v5.40.1, dated 2025-09-18, and it's the VIMPLATE(1) manual page — now go generate some templates and slay. 🫶✨💅