Ma_Sys.ma “New File” Templates

Template Files

This package provides a set of files that can be used to create “new” files of the same type. The following files are noteworthy templates:

latex_document.tex	For regular texts
latex_presentation.tex	For beamer presentations
xhtml_1_page.xhtml	XHTML 1.0 webpage template
svg_file.svg	SVG empty image
empty_file	Empty file (general purpose, new text file etc.)

Additionally, there are some files to be used in conjunction with other Ma_Sys.ma content. build_*.xml files instantiate masysmaci/build(32) and overview_conf.sh is related to scrapbook_overview from shellscripts(32).

build_file.xml	Template build.xml to compile programs/documents
build_package.xml	Template build.xml to generate a package
overview_conf.sh	Create configuration for scrapbook_overview

If d5man2(32) is installed, template d5man2.md becomes available to create empty D5Man 2 pages.

Script ma_new_file

Name

ma_new_file – select template file to copy to current working directory

Synopsis

ma_new_file

Description

Interactively displays the list of available template files and allows the user to select one of the files. After pressing [ENTER], the selected file is copied to the present working directory.

Examples

Here is an example output. If [ENTER] is pressed at this time, template empty_file is copied to the present working directory.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Ma_Sys.ma Template File Selector 1.0.0.3, Copyright (c) 2012 Ma_Sys.ma.
 For further info send an e-mail to Ma_Sys.ma@web.de.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

[j] and [k] to select, [enter] or [l] to accept, [h] or [q] to abort.

 ) build_file.xml
 ) build_package.xml
 ) d5man2.md
 ) empty_dir
*) empty_file
 ) latex_document.tex
 ) latex_presentation.tex
 ) overview_conf.sh
 ) svg_file.svg
 ) xhtml_1_page.xhtml

ma_new_file integrates well into terminal-based file management applications like vifm. If conf-cli(32) is used, shortcut ön is mapped to ma_new_file in vifm.

Bugs

• The script fails to display its UI properly if the window is too small.
• Code quality could be enhanced. Given that such script is likely to already exist with a better implementation, it seems sensible to replace it with an existing alternative once such an alternative is found.

License Information

Ma_Sys.ma Templates are newly licensed under CC0-1.0 to make sure that the templates can be freely used to create documents under any license of the respective author’s choice.

See /usr/share/common-licenses/CC0-1.0 on any Debian system or https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode