[Feature Request] Insert timestamp (date, time) with keyboard shortcut

Hi, it would be nice to have some keyboard shortcut that inserts something of the form:

2021-06-26 00:41:21

, and equivalents, with the actual date and time.

Thanks a lot!

Quite specific, isn't it? You can achieve this at the DE level by using something like xdotool and an application shortcut (see Xfce Settings -> Keyboard).

For example, this command works for me:

sh -c 'xdotool sleep 0.5 type "$(date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")"'

If such a thing were ever to be added to Mousepad, I think it would be in a plugin.

specific to text editors!

upvote iswa

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Yes, you're fully right, @Tamaranch, and a plugin would be really fine.

Thanks a lot for your very informative response!

Kind regards.

Hello! Is this issue still open?

As you can see, yes :)

Okay thanks!

Hello!

I tried compiling the main.c file. But I got this error:

main.c:17:10: fatal error: mousepad/mousepad-private.h: No such file or directory 17 | #include <mousepad/mousepad-private.h> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ compilation terminated.

Also, it says that LC_ALL, GETTEXT_PACKAGE and PACKAGE_LOCALE_DIR are not defined. Can you please let me know what is wrong? I couldn't find the answer anywhere. Thanks in advance.

The build procedure is indicated in the README. Then you may have some dependency problems to solve as you go along. Please do some research on the web for that: this is basic knowledge you need to acquire to build any project, and it depends partly on the distribution you are using.

Okay.

xed has this feature. This might possibly be the source code for it?? https://github.com/linuxmint/xed/tree/master/plugins/time