Sublime Text 4 Plugin to insert current date and time
| Author: | Admin |
| Title: | Sublime Text 4 Plugin to insert current date and time |
| Language: | en-US |
| Number of words: | 187 |
| Category: | Sublime |
| Created: | 04:33 on Friday, 12. November 2021 |
| Modified: | 04:33 on Friday, 12. November 2021 |
| Keywords: | sublimetext, sublime, plugin, time, date |
| Excerpt: | A simple python plugin that can insert the current date and time at the cursor position using a variety of different formats. |
| Tags: | sublime |
| Page layout: | nonav |
This is a simple python plugin that just inserts the current date and time at the cursor position. It uses ISO date and time format as default, but can be told to use the system format instead.
It creates a new text command insert_datetime that takes one optional argument (the date format)
which can be either ìso (the default) or system to print the full date and time in system
format. To use it, you’ll have to create keyboard mappings (see the comment in the source code)
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import sublime, sublime_plugin, time
from datetime import datetime
# insert a date string. optional argument 'format' specifies the format
# 'sys': the system format (ctime())
# 'iso': ISO format (default)
# suggested keyboard bindings
# { "keys": ["ctrl+f5"], "command": "insert_datetime"},
# { "keys": ["f5"], "command": "insert_datetime", "args": {"format": "iso"}},
# { "keys": ["shift+f5"], "command": "insert_datetime", "args": {"format": "system"}},
class insert_datetimeCommand(sublime_plugin.TextCommand):
def run(self, edit, **kwargs):
frm: str = 'iso' # the format
output: str = None
if 'format' in kwargs:
if kwargs['format'] == 'system':
output = time.ctime()
elif 'format' == 'iso':
pass
else:
pass
# iso format is the default
if output is None:
output = datetime.now().astimezone().replace(microsecond=0).isoformat()
sel = self.view.sel();
for s in sel:
self.view.replace(edit, s, output)