Re: efficiently viewing Unix timestamps as dates

[Stefan Monnier]

> (add-hook 'foo-mode-hook
>           (lambda ()
>             (font-lock-add-keywords
>              nil
>              '(("[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]"
>                 (0 `(face nil display
>                           ,(format-time-string "%F %T"
>                                                (seconds-to-time
>                                                 (car
>                                                  (read-from-string
>                                                   (concat
>                                                    (match-string 0)
>                                                    ".0"))))))))))))

> I'd rather make this a minor mode than a hook, so I can easily turn it
> on in a buffer.  Is that easy or hard to do?  Any specific example I can
> look at?

Use `define-minor-mode' rather than `add-hook'.


        Stefan