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EditPad Lite has a nice feature (CTRL-E, CTRL-I) which inserts a time stamp e.g. "2008-09-11 10:34:53" into your code.
What is the best way to get this functionality in Vim?
(I am using Vim 6.1 on a Linux server via SSH. In the current situation a number of us share a login so I don't want to create abbreviations in the home directory if there is another built-in way to get a timestamp.)
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In vim you can execute comands with "!". You can combine that with "r" to insert the output into your current buffer. will insert the date into a file. Which out puts the name of the file and puts F after it.
date – Uses your system's date command and reads the results into the line below. This is dependent on your underlying system having a date command. On Windows, use date \t . :put =strftime('%B %e') – Uses Vim's strftime function to insert a date time using standard strftime formatting.
To make it work cross-platform, just put the following in your vimrc:
nmap <F3> i<C-R>=strftime("%Y-%m-%d %a %I:%M %p")<CR><Esc> imap <F3> <C-R>=strftime("%Y-%m-%d %a %I:%M %p")<CR> Now you can just press F3 any time inside Vi/Vim and you'll get a timestamp like 2016-01-25 Mo 12:44 inserted at the cursor.
For a complete description of the available parameters check the documentation of the C function strftime().
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