On dinsdag 3 augustus 2004 10:19, joe mc cool wrote: > Bert Van Vreckem wrote: > >I use Emacs to transcribe tunes in abc and it manages the time stamp > >automatically. However, I wouldn't recommend installing Emacs just for abc > > Hmmm, useful. > > I'm an [x]emacs fan. > > Perhaps you can give some pointers on how you do this.
The following works for GNU Emacs, your mileage may vary... First, you add a time stamp template to the beginnig of a buffer (somewhere in the first eight lines). The standard template is one of: Time-stamp: " " Time-stamp: <> After that, when you issue the command M-x time-stamp RET the time stamp will be updated (provided the value of the variable time-stamp-active is non-nil). To make this really useful, you can update the time stamp automatically when saving a file by adding the following to your .emacs file: (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'time-stamp) There is a customisation group called time-stamp where you can change the standard settings. More information can be found in the on-line manual: C-h a time-stamp RET By the way, I do hope you know about Matthew Junker's abc-mode? <http://my.execpc.com/~mjunker/abc-mode.el> Cheers, bert -- Bert Van Vreckem <http://flanders.blackmill.net/> Te audire non possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure. To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
