"Jeffrey L. Greer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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. > > Suggestions please? Thank you, Jeff Greer
I use the time-stamp command to insert a created time and last modified time via a 'tempo' skeleton template I have. This works really well - when I insert the skeleton I get this > Filename: /home/tcross/News/drafts/drafts/2 > Creation Date: Wednesday, 04 May 2005 06:13 PM EST > Last Modified: > Job: > Author: Tim Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Description: > The Last Modified field is updated each time I save the file. The relevant time-stamp stuff from my .emacs is (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'time-stamp) (setq time-stamp-active t) (setq time-stamp-format "%:a, %02d %:b %:y %02I:%02M %#P %Z") (setq time-stamp-start "\\(Time-stamp:[ ]+\\\\?[\"<]+\\|Last Modified:[ ]\\)") (setq time-stamp-end "\\\\?[\">]\\|$") (setq time-stamp-line-limit 10) The template is (tempo-define-template "generic-header" '((format "%s" comment-start) " Filename: " (buffer-file-name) '> 'n (format "%s" comment-start) " Creation Date: " (format-time-string "%A, %d %B %Y %I:%M %p %Z") '> 'n (format "%s" comment-start) " Last Modified: " '> 'n (format "%s" comment-start) " Job: " (p "Job: ") '> 'n (format "%s" comment-start) " Author: Tim Cross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" '> 'n (format "%s" comment-start) " Description:" '> 'n (format "%s" comment-start) '> 'n 'n)) HTH Tim -- Tim Cross The e-mail address on this message is FALSE (obviously!). My real e-mail is to a company in Australia called rapttech and my login is tcross - if you really need to send mail, you should be able to work it out! _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs