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Re: Simple lisp question - printing out file name
From: |
Pascal Bourguignon |
Subject: |
Re: Simple lisp question - printing out file name |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Jan 2006 21:15:59 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
exits funnel <exitsfunnel@yahoo.com> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I have added to several .el files something like this:
>
> (message "In prj.el")
>
> to help me straighten out configuration issues. I'd
> like to make it slightly more sophisicated by (a)
> replacing the hard coded string with some lisp to read
> the fully qualified file name and (b) to prepend a
> timestamp. I'm sure this is trivial lisp, but
> apparently it's not quite trivial enough for me :) It
> seems that buffer-file-name and current-time-string
> should be of interest to me but I can't get them to
> work inside my message call. Can anyone help me out
> here? Thanks in advance.
(message (format "On %s loading %s" (time-stamp-string) load-file-name))
You can also specify the time-stamp-format:
(time-stamp-string "%:y-%02m-%02d %02H:%02M:%02S")
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