From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Insert date and Time Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:50:34 +0100 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <877hq1e5dx.fsf@galatea.lan.informatimago.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1267112957 3807 80.91.229.12 (25 Feb 2010 15:49:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:49:17 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 25 16:49:13 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Nkfxg-0007jJ-Pl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:49:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60495 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Nkfxg-0005m1-7F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:49:12 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Trace: individual.net NHWaNqaZtQRvxw2NrH2Obg7MNsZLH5kRgGSdh6BucCechRaHkY Cancel-Lock: sha1:Yjk5MjY5M2UzOTc2ZDMzMTU0NzNmNmIwYWE3OTJmZjkzNWM3ZGJlZA== sha1:e7gO++7VZgXJRt5AxyGWYieYxOM= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no Importance: high User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (darwin) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177093 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:72131 Archived-At: Tugello writes: > Hello, > good morning to all,I'm newbie with emacs > my question is about how to insert current date and time, using a short key > combination instead to write they completely . > someone ave any suggestion ? > thanks in advance I type: C-u M-! date RET A purely emacs lisp alternative would be: M-: (insert (current-time-string)) RET Of course, if you have to do it often, you can do: (defun insert-timestamp () (interactive) (insert (current-time-string))) (global-set-key (kbd "") 'insert-timestamp) so that you only have to type F8 to insert the timestamp. -- __Pascal Bourguignon__