Insert timestamp

[amay5267]

Hi @magiblot

Any API to insert current timestamp like this?:
Wed Oct 12 15:15:00 2022

[magiblot]

Hi @amay5267,

I'm sorry, I do not intend to add a feature like this. I have seen you were able to achieve this in Textadept, but it makes sense there since you can write your own lua scripts. Turbo does not support scripting and I don't think there should be a specific feature for this.

[amay5267]

Hi @magiblot
I am very sorry to hear that.
It is such a basic feature for text editor.
For example Notepad in Windows is doing it.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/how-to-use-notepad-to-create-a-log-file-dd228763-76de-a7a7-952b-d5ae203c4e12

I am willing to implement it.
Is it ok for turbo using cpp chrono library?

[amay5267]

Would Ctrl+D or Ctrl+T be right shortcut?

[magiblot]

Hi @amay5267! I didn't know Notepad had such a feature. I have nothing against implementing this in the same way as Notepad does it. If you are willing to give a try at implementing it, using functions from the standard library is perfectly fine.

Would Ctrl+D or Ctrl+T be right shortcut?

No, these shortcuts are assigned to more important commands. It should be enough to add a menu entry (Edit > Insert Time/Date, like in Notepad).

[amay5267]

As a workaround I use this Unix command output:
date -R