From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Marsden Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Postscript print buffer with ISO date? Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 11:20:52 +0100 Organization: LAAS-CNRS http://www.laas.fr/ Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045737199 24719 80.91.224.249 (20 Feb 2003 10:33:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 10:33:19 +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 18lo0z-0006QW-00 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 11:33:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18lnyh-0003a6-0A for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 05:30:55 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!fr.usenet-edu.net!usenet-edu.net!news.cs.univ-paris8.fr!ciril.fr!univ-lille1.fr!news.cict.fr!news.laas.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: melbourne.laas.fr Original-X-Trace: kane.laas.fr 1045736452 14055 140.93.21.103 (20 Feb 2003 10:20:52 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@laas.fr Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Feb 2003 10:20:52 GMT X-Message-Flags: Please don't feed the Microserfs X-Eric-Conspiracy: there is no conspiracy X-Attribution: ecm X-URL: http://www.chez.com/emarsden/ User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.2 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:110424 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:6926 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:6926 >>>>> "stm" == Svend Tollak Munkejord writes: ecm> (require 'cl) ecm> (defun my-iso8601-date () (format-time-string "%Y-%d-%d")) ecm> (eval-after-load "ps-print" ecm> (setf (second ps-print-header) 'my-iso8601-date)) stm> (defun ps-time-stamp-iso () stm> "Return date as \"2003-02-20\"." stm> (format-time-string "%Y-%m-%d")) stm> (setq ps-right-header '("/pagenumberstring load" ps-time-stamp-iso ps-time-stamp-hh:mm:ss)) stm> stm> Is your solution preferable? in many cases, you have to load a module before being able to customize it; if you load many modules from your init file, Emacs will be slow to start up. The special form 'eval-after-load' allows you to customize a module after it is autoloaded. An other point is that neither solution will work well if the default contents of the ps-right-header variable change in the future. -- Eric Marsden