Question
How does one effectively find today's date in a file?
The format of the date is given by GNU's date(1)
's command as:
$ date '+%a %d-%m-%Y'
Mon 16-08-2021
What I already tried
This is how I got this to work right now.
Step 1. I have defined a vimscript :Date
command to output the wanted format:
function Date()
read !date '+\%a \%d-\%m-\%Y'
-1
join
endfunction
command Date :call Date()
Step 2 I open up the command-line-window
in search mode with q/
.
Step 3 I run :Date
to output today's date in the command-line-window
.
Step 4 I press <Enter>
to find the date.
Steps 2, 3, and 4 have to be repeated every time to find today's date.
So, oftentimes, I just search for the date manually (e.g. /Mon 16-08-2021
).
How can I make this process more efficient?