EMACS insert from subshell
I wanted to insert the current date and time at my cursor position.
The sequence of keystrokes in emacs to invoke a subshell command and get its output at your cursor position is this:
CTL+uALT+!
That allows you to pull output from a subshell command to the cursor position.
My Complete sequence of keystrokes
Today's date is: CTL+uALT+!date -u --rfc-3339=seconds
This is the result:
Today's date is: 2015-02-21 19:00:57+00:00