til/vim/read-in-the-contents-of-a-rails-file.md

Read In The Contents Of A Rails File

The rails.vim plugin allows you to quickly navigate to specific types of files with the E prefix. For instance, :Emodel will scope you to just the models directory.

You can use this same approach with the D prefix. Instead of navigating to specified file though, this will read in the contents of that file into the current buffer.

Do you need to copy and tweak the contents of a similar view? Open up your new view file (e.g. :Eview posts/edit.html.erb) and then enter :Dview posts/new to quickly copy in its contents.

h/t Josh Davey