I used vocola as the glue with Python doing the work vocola first # Voice commands for xwin include Unimacro.vch; # This really should be just for xemacs but, we will do the best we can (date | time | log) stamp = stamp.string($1); --- The heavy lifting --- #!/bin/env python # system imports: import time # local imports: # description: # #timestamp.py generates timestamp strings for a variety of #contexts. Ordinary time and date, revision histories etc. the grammar #is: # (date | time | log) stamp # # "date stamp" yields Feb 6, 2011 # "time stamp" yields 12:04 pm # "log stamp" yields 06-feb-2011 esj: #site control variables # user_name = "esj" # should be derived from system but right now I'm too lazy time_24 = True #True sets 24 hour format, False sets 12 hour format # date string format time_stamp_table = { "date": "%b %d, %Y", "time_12": "%I:%M %p", "time_24": "%H:%M", "log": "%s %s: "%("%d-%b-%Y",user_name), } # vocola function: stamp.string def time_stamp_string(date_type): """based on the current type, return the appropriate date/time stamp """ working_type = date_type if "time" in date_type: if time_24: working_type = date_type + "_24" else: working_type = date_type + "_12" localtime = time.localtime(time.time()) result = time.strftime (time_stamp_table[working_type], localtime) return result ----- Now that I've gotten this done, I'm going to hack on the apparently new Emacs to-the-release configuration file. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta