On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 7:56 PM, sc <[email protected]> wrote: > just wondering: would you still want to do that if you knew vim > supports its own strftime function? > > :let td = strftime("%Y-%b-%d") > > will give you a nice 11 character string in 'td', and you can > adjust to your preferences >
I didn't know about that function, though I was interested in general solution as well. On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 9:05 PM, Gary Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > As sc wrote, strftime() is a better solution in this case. However, > for commands for which Vim does not have an internal equivalent, use > system(), e.g., > > let stamp = system("date +%s") > > That will include the trailing newline in your stamp variable. If > that's undesirable, use this instead: > > let stamp = substitute(system("date +%s"), '\n', '', '') > > This is it. Thank you all a lot! -- You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php
