Repeating mapped text in insert mode

Question

I am making my life easier by mapping shortcuts to long DocBook XML structures in insert mode, for example

map! <unique> <localleader>ct <callout arearefs="">>

is there a way to prepend count to the mapping in insert mode? Assuming , is my <localleader>, if I want to insert the whole <table> structure with ,tb, i could easily insert let's say 20 rows (,tr) by typing something like:

20,tr

Answer 1

If I understood correctly (cf comments under the question), the following might help you:

function! CreateTable(count)
    " Note, the append creates the table from the end to beginning
    call append(line('.'), "</table>")
    call append(line('.'), repeat(["<tr></tr>"], a:count))
    call append(line('.'), "<table>")
endfunc
command -range -nargs=0 CreateTable call CreateTable()

And with a mapping (in normal mode) for it:

nnoremap <localleader>tr :<C-U>call CreateTable(v:count1)<CR>

<C-U> cancels the count, to call the function once only (I think this is the good help page: :h c_CTRL-U).

v:count1 in the last count typed (:help v:count1).