From: Jim Diamond <Jim.Diamond@nospam.AcadiaU.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Insert date and Time
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 11:06:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <slrnhp27f0.dar.Jim.Diamond@jdiamond-nb.acadiau.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.2134.1267526036.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On 2010-03-02 at 06:36 AST, Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de> wrote:
> Uwe Siart wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
> May be that way:
>
> (defun insert-time-stamp ()
> "Inserts a time stamp 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM AM/PM'"
> (interactive "*")
> (let ((beg (when (region-active-p)
> (region-beginning)))
> (end (when
> (region-active-p) (region-end))))
> (when (and beg end)
> (delete-region beg end)))
> (insert (format-time-string "%Y-%m-%d - %I:%M %p")))
Andreas,
this seems gratuitously complicated. Is there anything wrong with
(defun insert-time-stamp ()
"Inserts a time stamp 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM AM/PM'"
(interactive "*")
(when (region-active-p)
(delete-region (region-beginning) (region-end)))
(insert (format-time-string "%Y-%m-%d - %I:%M %p")))
Sorta curious, since I am no elisp wizard.
Cheers.
Jim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-05 15:06 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
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 [this message]
[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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