Paste in the following text:Įditor.addText( time.strftime( '%Y-%m-%d %I:%M %p' ) ) Enter a filename for the script file you are about to create, like “Time.py”, and click Save.Ī new, blank tab will appear in Notepad++. To create the script that will insert the timestamp, click Plugins | Python Script | New Script. Restart Notepad++ and you’ll find that Python Script has been added to the Plugins menu. Do not download it from within Notepad++ by clicking Plugins | Plugin Manager | Show Plugin Manager, scrolling down the Available plugins list to Python Script, checking the box and clicking Install, because it just won’t work (and you may get an older version of the plugin). So, here’s a quick tutorial on adding a customizable insert datestamp/timestamp macro to Notepad++.ĭownload the Python Script plugin from and install it. The SourceForge project page for Python Script is at. I’ve been curious about Python for awhile, too, so I was willing to give it a shot. I found this article: that explains, briefly, how to do this using the Python Script plugin. The no-longer-in-development TextFX plugin frequently comes up in Google searches as one way of doing this, but the plugin doesn’t offer any ability to customize the format of the date or time stamp.
I had been looking off and on for a few years for a way to insert a timestamp into a file in Notepad++, preferably by a hotkey.
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