Inserting a timestamp in a file

Inserting a timestamp in a file

[Fred Picher]

Hello,

  Is there a way to insert a timestamp at a precise place in a file, eg. is there a function that does this ?

Thanks.



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Re: Inserting a timestamp in a file

[Maarten Bergvelt]

On 2009-01-29, Fred Picher <frederificc@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>   Is there a way to insert a timestamp at a precise place in a file, eg. is there a function that does this ?

Did you look at the emacs manual?

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RE: Inserting a timestamp in a file

[Drew Adams]

> Is there a way to insert a timestamp at a precise place in 
> a file, eg. is there a function that does this ?

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TimeStamp

For Emacs 21 and later, that page also points you to the Emacs manual, node Time
Stamps.

Re: Inserting a timestamp in a file

[Kiwon Um]

On Jan 29, 11:25 pm, Fred Picher <frederif...@yahoo.ca> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>   Is there a way to insert a timestamp at a precise place in a file, eg. is there a function that does this ?
>
> Thanks.
>
>       __________________________________________________________________
> Connect with friends from any web browser - no download required. Try the new Yahoo! Canada Messenger for the Web BETA athttp://ca.messenger.yahoo.com/webmessengerpromo.php

Check yasnippet, http://code.google.com/p/yasnippet/ :)

Re: Inserting a timestamp in a file

[B. T. Raven]

Fred Picher wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>   Is there a way to insert a timestamp at a precise place in a file, eg. is there a function that does this ?
> 
> Thanks.
> 

This has to go in one of the first eight lines of the file

;; Time-stamp: ""

then this (or equivalent code) in your .emacs:

(add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'time-stamp)

I suppose you could copy it programatically anywhere else in the file if 
you needed to, say at a bookmark. That would have to be done again 
everytime you saved. What's the usefulness of putting the time stamp at 
an arbitrary place? A save saves the whole file.

Ed

Re: Inserting a timestamp in a file

[Harry Putnam]

Fred Picher <frederificc@yahoo.ca> writes:

> Hello,
>
>   Is there a way to insert a timestamp at a precise place in a file,
>   eg. is there a function that does this ?

Sounds like the kind of thing skeletons are good for.  If you want
something more customized than the existing timestamp functions. (Like
I did) take a look at skeletons here:

     (info "(autotype)Top")

This example may help you get it the way you want:

I wanted something for adding timestamped comments to files in a
certain format... like this:

# [HP 01/31/09_10:24:55 <MY COMMENT GOES HERE> ]

You can get just about any style time format you want by messing with
format-time-string.

This code inserts the above timestamp comment 
(minus the stuff above between `<>')

(define-skeleton hp-comdate
	"Insert #[HP] comment and 
	date string with no newline."
	nil
	"# [HP "
	(format-time-string "%m/%d/%y_%T ") _ " ] ")

So then you can say `M-x hp-comdate <RET>' to insert the skeleton