Re: inserting date and time at the cursor location

Re: inserting date and time at the cursor location

[David Kastrup]

Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:

> "Guy-Armand Kamendje" <kguy@gmx.at> writes:
> 
> > Is there a way to let xemacs insert the current date and time at the
> > actual cursor location?
> 
> (defun jh-insert-current-time ()
>   (interactive)
>   (insert (current-time-string)))
> 
> Then do `M-x jh-insert-current-time' or bind it to some key sequence.

You could also use
C-u M-! date RET

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Email: David.Kastrup@t-online.de

Re: inserting date and time at the cursor location

[ken]

Here's some elisp which does them separately... what I use:

(defun now ()
  "Insert string for the current time formatted like '2:34 PM'."
  (interactive)                 ; permit invocation in minibuffer
  (insert (format-time-string "%-I:%M %p"))
)


(defun today ()
  "Insert string for today's date nicely formatted in American style,
e.g. Sunday, September 17, 2000."
  (interactive)                 ; permit invocation in minibuffer
  (insert (format-time-string "%A, %B %e, %Y"))
)

Put these in a file in your emacs path.  Do "M-x today" or "M-x now" to 
invoke.  Also, it should be obvious how to integrate the two.


hth,
ken

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Spake Guy-Armand Kamendje at 15:03 (UTC+0200) on Wed, 2 Oct 2002:

= Hi,
= Is there a way to let xemacs insert the current date and time at the actual
= cursor location?
= Thanks for any hint
= Guy
= 
= 
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Re: inserting date and time at the cursor location

[Mario Lang]

Clemens Fischer <ino@despammed.com> writes:

> David Kastrup <David.Kastrup@t-online.de> writes:
>
>> You could also use
>> C-u M-! date RET
>
> ok, how do i bind this to a key?

Using keyboard macros for instance:

C-x ( C-u M-! date RET C-x )

Now you can use C-x e to call the last kbd macro or

M-x edit-kbd-macro RET C-x e 

to see the whole macro, being able to edit it and give it a name
and keybinding.  Use C-c C-c to save.

-- 
CYa,
  Mario

Re: inserting date and time at the cursor location

[Josh Huber]

"Guy-Armand Kamendje" <kguy@gmx.at> writes:

> Is there a way to let xemacs insert the current date and time at the
> actual cursor location?

Probably, but here is some elisp to do it:

(insert (format-time-string "%c"))

You can bind this to a key like:

(defun jmh::insert-time-and-date ()
  (interactive)
  (insert (format-time-string "%c")))

(global-set-key (kbd "A-d") 'jmh::insert-time-and-date)

Which would use Alt-d as the keybinding.

-- 
Josh Huber

inserting date and time at the cursor location

[Guy-Armand Kamendje]

Hi,
Is there a way to let xemacs insert the current date and time at the actual
cursor location?
Thanks for any hint
Guy