nvim-update-time

nvim-update-time updates Timestamp markers in your files as you save them.

Features

• Automatically update timestamp in a file when the file is saved.
• Customize the marker used to locate the timestamp.
• Customize the timestamp format.
• Customize the range of lines used to locate the timestamp marker.
• Enable/disable the update of timestamps.
• Force an update of the timestamp in the current buffer using a command.

Dependencies

You need at least NVIM version 0.8.0 to use this plugin.

Installation

Add StonyBoy/nvim-update-time to your list of plugins

This is how to add the plugin with Lazy (https://github.com/folke/lazy.nvim):

  {
    'StonyBoy/nvim-update-time',
    config = function()
      require('nvim-update-time').setup({ last = 5, format = '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S %Z'})
    end,
  },
}

Customization

The plugin accepts a table containing the following properties:

Property	Type	Default value	Description
first	Integer	0	The first line number in the search range. Zero based.
last	Integer	10	The last line number in the search range. Zero based.
pattern	String	'Time-Stamp: '	The text string used to locate the timestamp.
format	String	'%Y-%b-%d %H:%M'	The format string used to generate the timestamp. See :help strftime

User commands

These are the available user commands:

• UpdateTimeToggle enable/disable the updating of timestamps in all buffers.
• UpdateTimeStamp updates the timestamp in the current buffer.