From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: Inserting date
Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:18:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <002301c99a35$81f12ae0$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2N6dnfxCVbmGnjfUnZ2dnUVZ_sDinZ2d@sysmatrix.net>
> > 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-01 6:18 UTC|newest]
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2009-03-01 3:38 ` Inserting date B. T. Raven
2009-03-01 6:18 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2009-03-02 20:17 ` Ken Goldman
2009-03-01 2:50 Armando Martins
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