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From: "Sven Bretfeld" <sven.bretfeld@gmx.ch>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: If clause depending on name of the day
Date: 3 Apr 2012 22:58:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871uo4v8ft.fsf@gmx.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fwcklhn7.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> (Pascal J. Bourguignon's message of "Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:50:04 +0200")

Dear all

"Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:

> "Sven Bretfeld" <sven.bretfeld@gmx.ch> writes:
>
>> Is it possible to have an if-condition that looks for the current day?
>> So that the then-expression does something different on Tuesday than on
>> Friday? 
>>
>> This is not working:
>>
>>  (if (string-equal 'current-time-string ".*Tue.*")
>>     (delete-other-windows)
>>   (split-window-horizontally))
>
> What Lars said.
> Otherwise  you would have wanted:
>
>    (require 'cl)
>
>    (search "Tue" (current-time-string)) ; search a substring
>
> or:
>
>    (string-match "Tue" (current-time-string)) ; search a regexp.

This is working just as I wanted it to. Thank you very much. 

>> p.s. unnecessary to mention that I have only a weak knowledge of elisp.
>
>           An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp
>           http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-lisp-intro/
>           (for non-programmers)

Bookmarked for later reading. Thanks.

Sven



  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-03 20:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.458.1333480607.20052.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-04-03 19:50 ` If clause depending on name of the day Pascal J. Bourguignon
2012-04-03 20:58   ` Sven Bretfeld [this message]
2012-04-03 19:16 Sven Bretfeld
2012-04-03 19:32 ` Lars Ljung
2012-04-03 19:57   ` Drew Adams
2012-04-03 20:05   ` PJ Weisberg
     [not found]   ` <mailman.462.1333483518.20052.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-04-03 21:03     ` Pascal J. Bourguignon

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