Feature idea: scriptable output

[jtroo]

Discussed in #275

^{Originally posted by gerhard-h January 27, 2023}
Here is my solution (quite cumbersome)
it starts with this in my .kbd file:

(defalias  
;; bottom 2 lines of kbd script no leading spaces 
dayiso (macro kp2 kp0 kp2 kp3 - kp0 kp1 - kp3 kp0  ) 
dayde  (macro kp3 kp0 . kp0 kp1 . kp2 kp0 kp2 kp3  )) 

@dayiso gives 2023-01-30 and @dayde gives 30.01.2023

but this is hardcoded and not the current date!
To fix this I scheduled a batch file to run each day to update the date
( runs on windows with german date format in the same folder as kanata.kbd)

@for /f "tokens=1-3 delims=. " %%a in ('date /T') do @echo %%c-%%b-%%a > todayiso.txt 
@date /T > todayde.txt
grep -E -v "^dayde |^dayiso " kanata.kbd > todayisokanata.txt
sed -r -e "s/([0-9])/kp\1 /g" -e "s/-/- /g"    -e "s/^/dayiso (macro /" -e "s/$/)/" todayiso.txt >> todayisokanata.txt
sed -r -e "s/([0-9])/kp\1 /g" -e "s/\./\. /g"  -e "s/^/dayde  (macro /" -e "s/$/))/" todayde.txt >> todayisokanata.txt
copy todayisokanata.txt kanata.kbd

Finally if you don't if the computer is not restarted I have to use live reload key lrld to tell kananta to update its config.

Is there an easier way?

[jtroo]

Merged into v1.3.0 branch for now

[jtroo]

Closing as completed

[gerhard-h]

played around with the feature

• powershell was very laggy before I used -NoProfile
  (cmd-output-keys powershell.exe -NoProfile -Command "echo '(' ((Get-Date -Format 'yyyy-MM-dd').toCharArray() -join ' ') ')'")

• many windows user may have bash installed already by means of git and it works pretty well.
  (cmd-output-keys bash -c "date +'(%F)' | sed 's/./& /g'")

• but cmd is still the speed winner :)

@SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion 
@set DT=
@for /f "tokens=1-3 delims=. " %%a in ('date /T') do @set DT=%%c%%b%%a 
@echo ( %DT:~0,1% %DT:~1,1% %DT:~2,1% %DT:~3,1% - %DT:~4,1% %DT:~5,1% - %DT:~6,1% %DT:~7,1% )

• finaly not using the new feature
  (cmd "...\AutoHotkey\AutoHotkeyU64_UIA.exe" "isodate.ahk")
  with

FormatTime, TimeString,, yyyy-MM-dd
Send, %TimeString%