Re: Bug#106678: ITP: new -- A template system

[David Schleef <ds@schleef.org>]

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...