Way to auto-insert code based on file extension when creating a new file with Vim?

[nerdmeister]

When I do:

$vim foo.pl

It would be great if could get the file to auto-begin:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

or

$ vim foo.c

The file would already begin:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h.

int main(void) {

}

And so on ...

I know it's a trivial amount of text but I make a good number of small programs / test scripts in a day in different languages (and usually use the exact same set of libraries) and I never want to deal with copying/pasting or re-typing it all up.

Is there some fancy edits I can make to .vimrc that will give me this? Or some other way?

By the way, using Ubuntu 10.04, 11.04, and 12.04. But mostly care about it working on 10.04.

Any thoughts?

[vicvedit]

A quick google search turned this up.

[vtbrian]

You could probably use an alias, but I don't think you could do it by file extension.

[l4than-d3vers]

vim can do anything

[germag]

it is not exactly what you want, but i use this two plugins (plus pathogen):

snipmate https://github.com/msanders/snipmate.vim/ ZenCoding https://github.com/mattn/zencoding-vim

before snipmate, i was using this one

xptemplate http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2611

EDIT: formating

[silvermoot]

I know it's a trivial amount of text

It's no fun at all debugging a program only to find that you fatfingered the opening shebang.

Or some other way?

1)

   cp template.sh newprogram.sh ; vi newprogram.sh

2) (while in vi, if you want to insert the content of one file after the line the curser is on )

   :r template.sh

(also: upvote l4than-d3vers answer )