Close the Shortcut Mapper and you’re ready to use your new timestamp hotkey. For me, Run was located in the Shortcut mapper under Main menu around number 208. I never use the Run command, so I just remove the shortcut from that command by clicking on Settings | Shortcut Mapper… and choosing the Main menu tab, scrolling down to the Run item and either removing the mapping by changing the shortcut to None or changing it to something else, such as Ctrl+F5. I choose to map my Time script to F5, because this mirrors the timestamp functionality built into Windows notepad.exe, but Notepad++ already uses that keystroke for the Run command. Highlight it, click Modify and assign it to a shortcut. The Time script should be listed here somewhere (in my case, it is usually somewhere around number 27).
Click on Settings | Shortcut Mapper… and choose the Plugin commands tab. Close the Time.py tab and then exit and relaunch Notepad++.
Save the Time.py file to the default location in your user profile.Īdd the Time.py script to Notepad++ by clicking on Plugins | Python Script | Configuration, highlighting Time.py, clicking the Add button above Menu items, and then clicking OK.īut, you probably want to be able to run this as a macro from a keyboard shortcut. 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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