On Tue, 03 May 2005, Jeffrey L. Greer wrote: > I am trying to configure automatic time-stamp for emacs 21 in a Debian > Sarge system. I have the following .emacs file in my home directory. I > have read and re-read what seems to be the relevant pages in the hard > copy of Gnu Emacs Manual. Time stamp will only work manually. >
,----[ C-h f time-stamp RET ] | time-stamp is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `time-stamp'. | (time-stamp) | | Update the time stamp string(s) in the buffer. | A template in a file can be automatically updated with a new time stamp | every time you save the file. Add this line to your .emacs file: | (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'time-stamp) | Normally the template must appear in the first 8 lines of a file and | look like one of the following: | Time-stamp: <> | Time-stamp: " " | The time stamp is written between the brackets or quotes: | Time-stamp: <1998-02-18 10:20:51 gildea> | The time stamp is updated only if the variable `time-stamp-active' is | non-nil. The format of the time stamp is set by the variable | `time-stamp-format'. The variables `time-stamp-line-limit', | `time-stamp-start', `time-stamp-end', `time-stamp-count', and | `time-stamp-inserts-lines' control finding the template. `---- Put a line containing: "Time-stamp: <>" in one of the first 8 lines of the file you want to time stamp. With (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'time-stamp) in your .emacs the above string gets updated when the file is being saved. -- _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs