Hi Brent,

Thank you very much for pointing that function out. I am still learning how
to use apropos and just found about `C-u apropos' which shows that function
when `apropos' did not.

Anyway, much easier than my hack.

Thank you,
Zachary

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> wrote:

> Zachary Young <zacharysyoung@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm still new to elisp, so forgive me if I am missing something
> obvious...
> >
> > I would like to make an orgmode active time-stamp from within a custom
> function I am writing. I have
> > looked at `org-time-stamp' but do not see a way to call this in a
> *non-interactive* fashion from my
> > code. Inside `org-time-stamp' I was looking for a "core time-stamp
> function" that the interactive
> > functions would call... but could not make one out. Is there a function
> already defined that when
> > called will make a time-stamp with default values?
> >
> > If not, can someone point out the lines of code inside `org-time-stamp'
> that I can duplicate in my
> > own code?
> >
> > I would prefer not to have to make a macro.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Zachary
>
> Hi Zachary,
>
> You probably want something like org-insert-time-stamp.
>
> I use this to insert inactive timestamps in buffers like this:
>
> (defun bh/insert-inactive-timestamp ()
>  (interactive)
>  (org-insert-time-stamp nil t t nil nil nil))
>
>
> If you change the third parameter from t to nil it gives you active
> timestamps.
>
> See the docstring for more details.
>
> HTH,
> Bernt
>