Re: Command to insert dated comment

On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Sapfeer wrote:

> Dear all,
> I want to create a command that will insert comment mark, for instance
> '#', space, date and time on the next line after current, but AFAICS
> there is no way to put insert commands like o in command. The most
> obvious way - use mapping, but it is preferable to use command feature

You don't want to use the o command, because that leaves you in insert
mode. You're looking for the append() function:

command TimedComment :call append(line('.'), '# '.strftime('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'))

Another common idiom, if the comment you want to insert gets complex, is
to create a function, then call the function from a command.

E.g. Convert2HTML() is a function that converts a specified range to
HTML in a new buffer:

command -range=% TOhtml :call Convert2HTML(<line1>, <line2>)

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Best,
Ben

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