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Re: Insert date and Time


From: Uwe Siart
Subject: Re: Insert date and Time
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:40:07 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.92 (windows-nt)

Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com> writes:

> I use this function to insert a time stamp at point:
>
>     (defun insert-time-stamp ()
>       "Inserts a time stamp 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM AM/PM'"
>       (interactive)
>       (insert (format-time-string "%Y-%m-%d - %I:%M %p")))

Nice gimmick. To make it perfect I'd like insert-time-stamp to replace
region (if there is a region). How to achieve this? (insert "string")
does not replace region but inserts at point.

-- 
Uwe


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