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From: Brian van den Broek <vanden@gmail.com>
To: Markus Heller <hellerm2@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs/Org-mode question
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:45:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A736607.6060704@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <h4vo9o$7q9$1@ger.gmane.org>

Markus Heller said unto the world at 31/07/09 05:39 PM:
> Hello all,
> 
> this might be a typical beginner question ...
> 
> I often use the sequence
> 
> C-. <Ret> C-- :
> 
> to create this:
> 
> - <2009-07-31 Fri>:
> 
> where the date is today's date.
> 
> I'm sure there's a way to create a command for this, but I have no idea 
> how.  I'd like to bind this sequence to something like C-c t or similar.
> 
> How do I do this?
> 
> Thanks and Cheers
> Markus

Hi Markus,

I have the following in my .emacs:

(defun date ()
   (interactive "*")
     (insert (format-time-string "%Y-%m-%d %T" (current-time))))
(global-set-key [f11] 'date)

This will at least get you started. See the documentation for 
format-time-string to season as suits.

Best,

Brian vdB

  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-31 21:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-31 21:39 Emacs/Org-mode question Markus Heller
2009-07-31 21:45 ` Brian van den Broek [this message]
2009-07-31 22:08   ` Markus Heller

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