From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: If clause depending on name of the day Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 23:03:34 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87aa2sle8p.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: <87d37ovd60.fsf@gmx.ch> <87limc6289.fsf@kvarnholmen.matholka.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1333487315 23020 80.91.229.3 (3 Apr 2012 21:08:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 21:08:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 03 23:08:34 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SFAxu-0000Bm-2e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2012 23:08:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39119 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SFAuf-0000U8-9P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Apr 2012 17:05:13 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Trace: individual.net cwm5W+UoWdTAOVJRnFnuJwbElf6K5D96fM/90tJGOIZYb00jiL Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZWJkNGEwYmFhMDdlMzNlNjc4MTQ2Nzg0NGEwOGU5YWZiYmZkNjk1NA== sha1:P5+ZeR7l7SF8OikcfdqjdUIZUE8= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:191889 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:84302 Archived-At: PJ Weisberg writes: > On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 12:32 PM, Lars Ljung wrote: >> "Sven Bretfeld" 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? >> >> (nth 6 (decode-time)) returns 0-6 for Sunday-Saturday. > > So you could do something like this: > > (require 'cl) > (case (nth 6 (decode-time)) > (0 > (message "Today is Sunday")) > ((1 3 5) > (message "Today is Monday, Wednesday, or Friday")) > (2 > (message "Today is Tuesday")) > (t > (message "It's some other day."))) (message "Today is %s" (aref ["Sunday" "Monday" "Tuesday" "Wednesday" "Thirsday" "Friday" "Saturday"] (nth 6 (decode-time)))) --> "Today is Tuesday" -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ A bad day in () is better than a good day in {}.