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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-03 20:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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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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