Re: automatic time-stamp

[Tim X]

"Jeffrey L. Greer" <jlgreer1@excite.com> 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 <tcross@pobox.une.edu.au>
>    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 
<tcross@pobox.une.edu.au>"
                                                 '> 'n
                                                 (format "%s" comment-start) "  
 Description:" '> 'n
                                                 (format "%s" comment-start) '> 
'n
                                                 'n))


HTH

Tim
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