* Inserting date
@ 2009-03-01 2:50 Armando Martins
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From: Armando Martins @ 2009-03-01 2:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hello!
Can you tell me how can I insert the today's date in a text file,
please? (something like fields in traditional word processors).
Thanks
Armando Martins
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* Re: Inserting date
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@ 2009-03-01 3:38 ` B. T. Raven
2009-03-01 6:18 ` Drew Adams
2009-03-02 20:17 ` Ken Goldman
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From: B. T. Raven @ 2009-03-01 3:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Armando Martins wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Can you tell me how can I insert the today's date in a text file,
> please? (something like fields in traditional word processors).
>
> Thanks
> Armando Martins
>
>
If you evaluate this:
(global-set-key "\C-cid" (lambda() (interactive) (insert
(format-time-string "%a %Y-%m-%d - %l:%M %p"))))
then you can use that key combo to insert day date - time. Strip out
some of the formating specs if you don't need them or change their order
if you like.
Ed
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* RE: Inserting date
2009-03-01 3:38 ` B. T. Raven
@ 2009-03-01 6:18 ` Drew Adams
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From: Drew Adams @ 2009-03-01 6:18 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
> > Can you tell me how can I insert the today's date in a text file,
> > please? (something like fields in traditional word processors).
>
> (global-set-key "\C-cid" (lambda() (interactive) (insert
> (format-time-string "%a %Y-%m-%d - %l:%M %p"))))
>
> then you can use that key combo to insert day date - time. Strip out
> some of the formating specs if you don't need them or change
> their order if you like.
These might help too (just some Emacs wiki search results for "insert date"):
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InsertingTodaysDate
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InsertAnyDate
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/InsertDate
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@ 2009-03-02 20:17 ` Ken Goldman
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From: Ken Goldman @ 2009-03-02 20:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
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If you want to insert the current date, how about
M-x insert-date?
If you want to insert, e.g., a time stamp for the last time a file was
written, look at the 'time-stamp' features.
Armando Martins wrote:
>
> Can you tell me how can I insert the today's date in a text file,
> please? (something like fields in traditional word processors).
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