From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1261 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Josh Huber Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: inserting date and time at the cursor location Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2002 11:10:27 -0400 Message-ID: <87it0kop0c.fsf@mail.paradoxical.net> References: <3d9aee7f$0$15412$3b214f66@aconews.univie.ac.at> Reply-To: Josh Huber NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668033 10469 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:40:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:40:33 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:28:53 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.emacs.xemacs,gnu.emacs.help,gnu.emacs.gnus Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: paradoxical.net Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1033574308 8065 66.92.73.76 (2 Oct 2002 15:58:28 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Oct 2002 15:58:28 GMT Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) XEmacs/21.4 (Honest Recruiter, i686-pc-linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+JAaKW3nGn5qF+Z65Fhb4O+HZOk= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1401 Original-Lines: 21 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1401 Tue Jan 17 17:28:53 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1261 Archived-At: "Guy-Armand Kamendje" 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