On Di, 10 Sep 2019, 'Ottavio Caruso' via vim_use wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have this bash alias:
> alias my-date='date +"%A %d %B %Y"'
>
> and this line in vimrc:
> set shellcmdflag=-ic
>
> I want to insert (prepend) a timestamp at the beginning of a non-empty
> line, without line breaks, but if I type:
>
> :r !my-date
:r reads the output of your command and puts it below the current line.
> this will print the timestamp on the next line, that is the line below
> the cursor.
>
> Is there a way to achieve what I want?
use strftime() together with Ctrl-R in insert mode. See the example in
the faq:
https://vimhelp.org/vim_faq.txt.html#faq-21.4
Best,
Christian
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