From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: zbranigan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: inserting date automatically Date: Thu, 05 Jun 2003 08:25:24 GMT Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <5bc78f6150590270f817905822958fd6@free.teranews.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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054800904 18165 80.91.224.249 (5 Jun 2003 08:15:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2003 08:15:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 05 10:15:02 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 19Nptm-0004il-00 for ; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 10:15:02 +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 19NpuW-0001aX-70 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Jun 2003 04:15:48 -0400 X-Abuse-Report: abuse@teranews.com Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed-east.nntpserver.com!nntpserver.com!free.teranews.com!not-for-mail Original-Lines: 40 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/20.7 (berkeley-unix) Cancel-Lock: sha1:O9qMgDUbzDwJekkN9dlRohbdNJU= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:114161 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:10655 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:10655 >>>>> "John" == John L Fjellstad writes: John> Kai Großjohann wrote: >> I guess C-h i has more info that most people can ever read... John> I really don't find the info pages that useful. I would John> never have known about the timestamp function unless you had John> mentioned it, for instance, looking through the info pages. John> Hopefully, when I get the Emacs book by Stallman, it will John> answer more of my questions. well, you could have done something like this: C-h a stamp RET gives you description like this: If you move the mouse over text that changes color, you can click mouse-2 to get more information. In this buffer, type RET to get full documentation. bbdb-timestamp-newer M-x bbdb-timestamp-newer RET Command: *Display records with timestamp newer than DATE. bbdb-timestamp-older M-x bbdb-timestamp-older RET Command: *Display records with timestamp older than DATE. time-stamp M-x time-stamp RET Command: Update the time stamp string in the buffer. time-stamp-toggle-active M-x time-stamp-toggle-active RET Command: Toggle `time-stamp-active', setti [. . .] then you could click mouse-2 on the 'Command:' under the 'time-stamp' entry to get a description. See, it's really quite simple. -- no toll on the internet; there are paths of many kinds; whoever passes this portal will travel freely in the world