From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: inserting date automatically Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 09:33:38 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3EDCBFD2.2040202@yahoo.com> References: <84k7c843tp.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <84n0h1ycuy.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054654546 30138 80.91.224.249 (3 Jun 2003 15:35:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 15:35:46 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 03 17:35:43 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19NDp8-0007pX-00 for ; Tue, 03 Jun 2003 17:35:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19NDoz-0008VV-P1 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Jun 2003 11:35:33 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1054654417 9484987 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:114047 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:10541 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:10541 John L Fjellstad wrote: > Kai Großjohann wrote: >>I guess C-h i has more info that most people can ever read... > > I really don't find the info pages that useful. I would never have known > about the timestamp function unless you had mentioned it, for instance, > looking through the info pages. In the Emacs manual, `i timestamp' yields "Info-index: No `timestamp' in index". But `i time-stamp' gets you to the "[Updating] Time Stamps [Automatically]" node under "Saving [Files]". > Hopefully, when I get the Emacs book by Stallman, it will answer more of my > questions. The printed Emacs Manual comes from the same TexInfo source as the online manual. -- Kevin Rodgers