On (15:10 14/11/06), Jürgen Krämer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> put forth the
proposition:
>
> Hi,
>
> David Woodfall wrote:
> >
> > On (10:30 14/11/06), David Woodfall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> put forth the
> > proposition:
> >
> > > I would like to make a command that would insert at cursor todays date,
> > > and also a command to insert some custom text.
> > >
> > > In the help file it shows how to make a keybind to do this but I would
> > > rather use a command - eg :date
> > >
> > > Can this be done?
> >
> > Ok I've just found the :command command but I'm having problems:
> >
> > :command Date :read !date +%d-%b-%Y
> >
> > This prints xxd-xxb-xxY
> >
> > !date with no options works fine on it's own. I have tried putting the
> > options in "" and '' but still no go.
>
> I guess the buffer from which you tested this command was named 'xx'.
> The percent sign in you command is a placeholder for the current file
> name. You have to escape it with a backslash if VIM should not touch
> it:
>
> :command Date :read !date +\%d-\%b-\%Y
Great, that works fine. Thanks very much.
>
> Regards,
> Jürgen
>
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