Re: help create function alias

[Adam]

> Marc Mientki wrote:
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Here's the (insert-date) function.  Which I now find doesn't 
work when called from the changed (id) example below. 

M-x id  returns "Wrong type argument: stringp, nil" 
Strange, as I never used M-x insert-date  with any prefix-argument. 
Indeed am not sure how I'd do that (to use its options). 

(defun insert-date (prefix)
    "Insert the current date. With prefix-argument, use ISO format. With
   two prefix arguments, write out the day and month name."
    (interactive "P")
    (let ((format (cond
                   ((not prefix) "%A, %d %B %Y")
                   ((equal prefix '(4)) "%Y-%m-%d")
                   ((equal prefix '(16)) "%A, %d. %B %Y")))
          (system-time-locale "de_DE"))
      (insert (format-time-string format))))

>> But actually you don't need "P" in your example. So you can write:
>> 
>> (defun id ()
>>     "insert date"
>>     (interactive)
>>     (insert-date t))
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