On Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 08:19:33PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: > On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, Baruch Even wrote: > > > New is a template system, especially useful in conjunction with a simple > > text > > editor such as vi. The user maintains templates which may contain format > > strings. At run time, new replaces the format strings in a template with > > appropriate values to create a new file. > > This sounds like what I was looking for. If no one else has sprung forth > yet, I'd be happy to sponsor you.
I would strongly suggest a different package name than 'new', since it is too generic and misleading. The command name is, as well, but I think that is less of an issue. dave...
