Easy customization of new note template (also from command line)

This was added to enable simple integration with
tools like sup (https://github.com/ceocoder/sup)

Author: xolox

README.md

@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ This shortcut also works from the command line:
 
     $ gvim note:todo
 
-When you don't follow *note:* with anything a new note is created like when you execute `:Note` without any arguments.
+When you don't follow *note:* with anything a new note is created like when you execute `:Note` without any arguments. If the *note:* shortcut is used from the command line, the environment variable `$VIM_NOTES_TEMPLATE` can be set to the filename of a template for new notes (this will override the default template).
 
 ### The `:Note` command
 

autoload/xolox/notes.vim

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 " Note: This file is encoded in UTF-8 including a byte order mark so
 " that Vim loads the script using the right encoding transparently.
 
-let g:xolox#notes#version = '0.30'
+let g:xolox#notes#version = '0.31'
 let g:xolox#notes#url_pattern = '\<\(mailto:\|javascript:\|\w\{3,}://\)\(\S*\w\)\+/\?'
 let s:scriptdir = expand('<sfile>:p:h')
 
@@ -61,6 +61,15 @@ function! xolox#notes#init() " {{{1
   if !exists('g:notes_recentindex')
     let g:notes_recentindex = xolox#misc#path#merge(localdir, 'recent.txt')
   endif
+  " Define the default location of the template for new notes.
+  if !exists('g:notes_new_note_template')
+    if !empty($VIM_NOTES_TEMPLATE)
+      " Command line override.
+      let g:notes_new_note_template = xolox#misc#path#absolute($VIM_NOTES_TEMPLATE)
+    else
+      let g:notes_new_note_template = xolox#misc#path#merge(g:notes_shadowdir, 'New note')
+    endif
+  endif
   " Define the default location of the template for HTML conversion.
   if !exists('g:notes_html_template')
     let g:notes_html_template = xolox#misc#path#merge(localdir, 'template.html')
@@ -158,8 +167,7 @@ function! xolox#notes#edit(bang, title) abort " {{{1
   let fname = xolox#notes#title_to_fname(title)
   noautocmd execute 'edit' . a:bang fnameescape(fname)
   if line('$') == 1 && getline(1) == ''
-    let fname = xolox#misc#path#merge(g:notes_shadowdir, 'New note')
-    execute 'silent read' fnameescape(fname)
+    execute 'silent read' fnameescape(g:notes_new_note_template)
     1delete
     if !xolox#notes#unicode_enabled()
       call s:transcode_utf8_latin1()

doc/notes.txt

@@ -347,7 +347,9 @@ This shortcut also works from the command line:
   $ gvim note:todo
 <
 When you don't follow _note:_ with anything a new note is created like when you
-execute |:Note| without any arguments.
+execute |:Note| without any arguments. If the _note:_ shortcut is used from the
+command line, the environment variable '$VIM_NOTES_TEMPLATE' can be set to the
+filename of a template for new notes (this will override the default template).
 
 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 The *:Note* command