insert current date into text document while editing it in Kate I would like to insert the current date into an open Kate text document while editing it by using a shortcut key combination. I see several such options for Atom, but I don't find anything for Kate.

If you want to have that functionality globally, you could use `xdotool` for this.

In my setup I have a shell script


#!/bin/sh
xdotool type $(date +%Y-%m-%d_%H:%M)


which I bind to a global hotkey.