Date Time Inserter

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Description

Date Time Inserter is a simple/basic Neovim plugin that allows you to easily insert the current date and time into your Neovim buffer.

This plugin does basically the same as the code block below, but this requires the date command to be installed on the system. Therefore it’s not always possible to use it on every system, this is exactly what Date Time Inserter tries to solve by using the lua built-in os.date() function. The plugin allows you to insert the date and time into your Neovim buffer on every system regardless of the operating system.

vim.keymap.set(
    "n",
    "<leader>dt",
    ':r! date "+\\%d-\\%m-\\%Y" <CR>',
    {noremap = true, vim.keymap.set}
)
vim.keymap.set(
    "n",
    "<leader>tt",
    ':r! date "+\\%H:\\%M:\\%S" <CR>',
    {noremap = true, vim.keymap.set}
)

Features

  • [1] Insert the current date.
  • [2] Insert the current time.
  • [3] Customizable date and time format.
  • [4] Customizable keybindings.