From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chris L Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Find and open or create file based on date Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 04:47:50 -0000 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1188881270.682310.165470@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1188890816 10794 80.91.229.12 (4 Sep 2007 07:26:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 07:26:56 +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 Sep 04 09:26:55 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ISSoJ-0000HU-Ed for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 09:26:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ISSoI-00063A-4X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Sep 2007 03:26:54 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 9 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 206.174.11.59 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1188881270 19273 127.0.0.1 (4 Sep 2007 04:47:50 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 04:47:50 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 57g2000hsv.googlegroups.com; posting-host=206.174.11.59; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:151654 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 03:26:05 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:47178 Archived-At: I'm looking for a function that will go to a specified directory and look for a file with the name based on the current date and time (such as 2007-09-03.txt) and open it (or create and open it if it does not exist). I know almost no lisp, so any pointers would be welcome. c