From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Forrest Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Journal package for Emacs? Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 12:02:03 -0400 (EDT) Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1031414650 32239 127.0.0.1 (7 Sep 2002 16:04:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 16:04:10 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17ni47-0008Nj-00 for ; Sat, 07 Sep 2002 18:04:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17ni47-0003gt-00; Sat, 07 Sep 2002 12:04:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17ni3f-0003cV-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Sep 2002 12:03:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17ni3d-0003c2-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Sep 2002 12:03:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mug.sys.virginia.edu ([128.143.6.251]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17ni3d-0003bt-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Sep 2002 12:03:37 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (drf5n@localhost) by mug.sys.virginia.edu (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g87G25K06131 for ; Sat, 7 Sep 2002 12:02:05 -0400 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-To: In-Reply-To: Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:1125 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:1125 On Sat, 7 Sep 2002, mike hardy wrote: > > I've been searching DN/Google/elisp list for some kind of journalling > package for Emacs and surprisingly I can't find anything except some old > Perl script called "plod" (and I don't think diary is what I want). What > I'd like to do is something like 'M-x journal' that opens my/a journal > file, inserts a date/timestamp and I can start editing under the > date/timestamp. Anyone know of something like this for Emacs? Or how Not me, Maybe you could add something using a local variable and find-file-hooks, but I dislike having my editor execute code. > about just a function I could use that would insert the date/time (and > I'll just use bookmarks for the journal file)? I'm most interested in > just being able to insert the date into a buffer. I tried looking for > some existing function in Emacs to allow me to do that but I don't find > anything. I use (global-set-key (kbd "C-c t") 'insert-current-time) (defun insert-current-time () "Insert the Current Time in ISO 8601 format" (interactive) (insert (format-time-string "%Y-%m-%dT%T%z ") ; ISO8601 ) ) > Thanks... > > Mike > -- Dave Forrest drf5n@virginia.edu (804)642-0662h (434)924-3954w http://mug.sys.virginia.edu/~drf5n/