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: Organized Learning Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 09:20:41 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3F7307C9.8030601@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1064504890 23646 80.91.224.253 (25 Sep 2003 15:48:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 15:48:10 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 25 17:48:06 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A2YLe-00078B-00 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 17:48:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 1A2Y4z-0003Gv-A4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 11:30:53 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1064503233 6805988 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:116860 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:12788 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:12788 Kevin Dziulko wrote: > Can I put this function into a .el file? I tried but I get a message that > reads "Symbol's function definition is void: loop" (require 'cl) before (defun totd ...) > Also, I use emacs just as an editor, and not as an environment, so how can > I make it so it truely only gets displayed once a day, no matter how many > times I start emacs? You could write the buffer to a file, and then only run the function if there is no file already written today: (defadvice totd (after write-file activate) "Write the *Tip of the day* buffer to a file." (with-current-buffer "*Tip of the day*" (write-file "~"))) (or (and (file-exists-p "~/*Tip of the day*") ;; Do (... DAY MONTH YEAR DOW DST ZONE) match? (equal (nthcdr 3 (decode-time (nth 5 (file-attributes "~/*Tip of the day*")))) (nthcdr 3 (decode-time (current-time))))) (totd)) -- Kevin Rodgers