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From: Uwe Siart <usenet@siart.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Insert date and Time
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:40:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871vg35d7c.fsf@siart.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1862.1267108938.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com> writes:

> I use this function to insert a time stamp at point:
>
>     (defun insert-time-stamp ()
>       "Inserts a time stamp 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM AM/PM'"
>       (interactive)
>       (insert (format-time-string "%Y-%m-%d - %I:%M %p")))

Nice gimmick. To make it perfect I'd like insert-time-stamp to replace
region (if there is a region). How to achieve this? (insert "string")
does not replace region but inserts at point.

-- 
Uwe


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-02  8:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-25  8:29 Insert date and Time Tugello
2010-02-25 14:41 ` Tim Visher
2010-02-25 14:49 ` Kevin Rodgers
2010-02-25 22:52 ` Drew Adams
2010-02-26  6:26   ` Kevin Rodgers
2010-02-26 15:02     ` Drew Adams
     [not found] ` <mailman.1862.1267108938.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-03-02  8:40   ` Uwe Siart [this message]
2010-03-02 10:36     ` Andreas Röhler
     [not found]     ` <mailman.2134.1267526036.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-03-02 13:25       ` Uwe Siart
2010-03-05 15:06       ` Jim Diamond
     [not found] <mailman.1861.1267108056.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-25 14:50 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-02-25 19:20   ` David Rogoff
2010-02-25 22:23 ` Tim X
2010-02-25 22:26 ` B. T. Raven

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