Re: [emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: emacs-wiki and abbrev mode

[Charlie Martin]

On Sep 21, 2005, at 14:42: 53, J. David Boyd wrote:

> Charlie Martin <address@hidden> writes:
>
>
> > ... or really, mostly, abbrev mode.
> >
> > I keep wanting to have abbrevs that expand out to, say, date-time
> > stamps.  I can do this on my mac with the rather brilliant Texpander,
> > where for example I have it set up so that typing 'ttime' inserts
> > 12:13:25 ... and then 12:13:35 ... and then 12:13:42 ... and so on.
> >
> >
> > So here's my question: is there a way to get abbrev mode, or hooks in
> > emacs-wiki or muse-mode or some such, to act like an abbrev but
> > execute a fragment of lisp code instead of just replacing one string
> > with another?
>
> Not what you are asking for, but you could just assign a lisp  
> function to
> insert a date-time stamp to a keystroke that planner/emacs-wiki  
> doesn't use...

yeah ...

I bind it to C-X-t


;;; -*-emacs-lisp-*-
;;; Charles R Martin, freely reusable without permission

;;; Insert time stamps

;;; Add a new function for inserting a time stamp at point
(defun insert-time-stamp (arg)
  "Insert a time stamp at point using the format of `time-stamp- 
format'."
  (interactive "p")
  (require 'time-stamp)
  (insert (time-stamp-string)))

(defun insert-time-label (arg)
  "Insert a time stamp in a special format for use as an `emacs-wiki'
anchor."
  (interactive "p")
  (require 'time-stamp)
  (insert (time-stamp-string "%:y%02m%02d%02H%02M")))
(provide 'insert-time-stamp)
;;; end