From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Pascal Bourguignon Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Simple lisp question - printing out file name Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:15:59 +0100 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87lkxn96v4.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1136924309 30499 80.91.229.2 (10 Jan 2006 20:18:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:18:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 10 21:18:25 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EwPwh-0006yu-JF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:18:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EwPyh-0001Y3-Cl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:20:23 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!easynet-monga!easynet.net!easynet-post2!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help 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 User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:tsLK47AdC3s21pId7fYMBYIDTws= Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.93.174.79 Original-X-Trace: DXC=;A\d4\oA7`ghNdV:nI?;b`^lbBd4DjF1d]a Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:136965 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:32580 Archived-At: exits funnel writes: > Hello, > > I have added to several .el files something like this: > > (message "In prj.el") > > to help me straighten out configuration issues. I'd > like to make it slightly more sophisicated by (a) > replacing the hard coded string with some lisp to read > the fully qualified file name and (b) to prepend a > timestamp. I'm sure this is trivial lisp, but > apparently it's not quite trivial enough for me :) It > seems that buffer-file-name and current-time-string > should be of interest to me but I can't get them to > work inside my message call. Can anyone help me out > here? Thanks in advance. (message (format "On %s loading %s" (time-stamp-string) load-file-name)) You can also specify the time-stamp-format: (time-stamp-string "%:y-%02m-%02d %02H:%02M:%02S") -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ CAUTION: The mass of this product contains the energy equivalent of 85 million tons of TNT per net ounce of weight.