Feature Request: Insert Current Date and Time Like Excel

أحمد حمدي حمدين · May 11, 2025, 7:46 AM

Hi Notepad++ Team,

I’d like to request a simple yet useful feature: the ability to insert the current date or time (or both) into the document at the cursor position, similar to how Excel allows using shortcuts like Ctrl+; for date and Ctrl+Shift+; for time.

Currently, Notepad++ does not appear to have a built-in shortcut or menu option for this (the old “Edit → Time & Date (F5)” seems to be missing in newer versions). It would be really helpful to bring back or add a customizable shortcut that can:

Insert the current date (e.g., 2025-05-11)
Insert the current time (e.g., 14:23:51)
Or insert both (e.g., 2025-05-11 14:23:51)

Ideally, users could assign their own hotkeys to these actions via the Shortcut Mapper.

Thanks for your consideration and all the great work on Notepad++!

Best regards,
Ahmad Hamdy

PeterJones · May 11, 2025, 2:02 PM

@أحمد-حمدي-حمدين said in Feature Request: Insert Current Date and Time Like Excel:

Hi Notepad++ Team,

I’d like to request a simple yet useful feature:

Feature already exists. No request needed. (If a request were needed, this isn’t the right place, as our FAQ makes clear)

Currently, Notepad++ does not appear to have a built-in shortcut or menu option for this (the old “Edit → Time & Date (F5)” seems to be missing in newer versions).

Edit > Insert > Date/Time (…) exists. It doesn’t default to any keystroke, but Shortcut Mapper can remedy that.

User Manual:

By the way, you claimed,

the old “Edit → Time & Date (F5)”

That never existed in Notepad++. MS notepad.exe used that menu name and hotkey, but never Notepad++. Don’t believe everything that hallucinating AI tells you