Sublime Text plugin to create a simple timestamp

README.md

1. Go to Tools > New Plugin
2. Paste timestamp.py contents and save in User as timestamp.py
3. Open Preferences > Key Bindings - User (or Default, your call)
4. Paste keybindings.json, or add a line to your keybindings
5. Customize the keyboard shortcut to your liking and save

keybindings.json

[
  { "keys": ["ctrl+shift+n"], "command": "timestamp" }
]

timestamp.py

import datetime
import sublime, sublime_plugin
 
class TimestampCommand(sublime_plugin.TextCommand):
  def run(self, edit):
    timestamp = "\n[%s]\t" % (datetime.datetime.now().strftime("%Y-%m-%d %H:%M"))
    self.view.insert(edit, self.view.sel()[0].begin(), timestamp)

Useful. Thanks!

Very Useful!
Thanks!

what about including milliseconds with %Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S.%f
thanks for this!

Hi guys! Love this script and use it all the time. The only gripe I've got is that the active window does not scroll down to the input point.

Place cursor at the bottom of a document, scroll up a few pages, hit the keyboard shortcut, and the window does not scroll down to where the time entry was inserted.

What would I need to do to accomplish this?