I would like to find an application or an extension for an editor that allows me to record phases of a process by entering status messages. Ideally, the output would be a logfile with timestamps for each message that I've entered.
Nowadays I have to test fairly complicated websites and I would like to be able to exactly know what I do in each step, so I would like to submit a status message on each step I do, much like a commit message in version control systems.
Do you know anything similar?
Perhaps gtimelog does what you're after:
It is available in Ubuntu as the gtimelog package:
sudo apt-get install gtimelog
Gedit as a Insert Date/Time plugin. You can configure it for a given format and to not ask confirmation. You should call it explicitly from Edit menu, though.
gtimelog looks very nice, this is would I would have done:
#!/bin/bash
echo $(date) "$@" >> "$USER/logfile"
if you save this in /usr/bin/log or in ~/bin/log you can just type in
log some message
and will end up with
Fr 12. Aug 11:30:50 CEST 2011 some message
in the file.
