How can one establish a keyboard shortcut for inserting the current date in Gedit? [duplicate]

Solution 1:

In Gedit click the cog-wheel and choose Preferences

Open the Plugin-tab and enable External Tools.

Close the Preferences-window and click the cog-wheel again, you will find the option Manage External Tools... now, select it to open the Manage External Tools-window:

Click the + button to add a new function and give it a name, add the date-command with the options of your choice, click the Shortcut key-button and assgin a shortcut and in the Output-field choose Insert at cursor position from the drop-down-menu.

Close the Manage External Tools-window and test the new keyboard-shortcut in the main gedit window.

Reference: Timestamp Keyboard Shortcut In gedit

Solution 2:

Adding to the accepted answer, I have put together a GitHub project with some additional information and a Gedit extension file that can be directly downloaded and then copy/pasted into location -

https://github.com/harrison-broadbent/gedit-insert-date

Hope anyone stumbling on this finds this project useful!