;;; time-stamp.el --- Maintain last change time stamps in files edited by Emacs ;;; Copyright 1989, 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; Maintainer: Stephen Gildea ;; Time-stamp: <93/06/20 17:36:04 gildea> ;; Keywords: tools ;; This file is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by ;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) ;; any later version. ;; This file is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the ;; GNU General Public License for more details. ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License ;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to ;; the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. ;;; Commentary: ;;; If you put a time stamp template anywhere in the first 8 lines of a file, ;;; it can be updated every time you save the file. See the top of ;;; time-stamp.el for a sample. The template looks like one of the following: ;;; Time-stamp: <> ;;; Time-stamp: " " ;;; The time stamp is written between the brackets or quotes, resulting in ;;; Time-stamp: <93/06/18 10:26:51 gildea> ;;; Here is an example which puts the file name and time stamp in the binary: ;;; static char *time_stamp = "sdmain.c Time-stamp: <>"; ;;; To activate automatic time stamping, add this code to your .emacs file: ;;; ;;; (autoload 'time-stamp "time-stamp" "Update the time stamp in a buffer." t) ;;; (if (not (memq 'time-stamp write-file-hooks)) ;;; (setq write-file-hooks ;;; (cons 'time-stamp write-file-hooks))) ;;; Change Log: ;;; Originally based on the 19 Dec 88 version of ;;; date.el by John Sturdy ;;; Code: (defvar time-stamp-active t "*Non-nil to enable time-stamping of files. See the function time-stamp.") (defvar time-stamp-format '(time-stamp-yy/mm/dd time-stamp-hh:mm:ss user-login-name) "*A list of functions to call to generate the time stamp string. Each element of the list is called as a function and the results are concatenated together separated by spaces. Elements may also be strings, which are included verbatim. Spaces are not inserted around literal strings.") ;;; Do not change time-stamp-line-limit, time-stamp-start, or ;;; time-stamp-end in your .emacs or you will be incompatible ;;; with other people's files! If you must change them, ;;; do so only in the local variables section of the file itself. (defvar time-stamp-line-limit 8 ;Do not change! See comment above. "Number of lines at the beginning of a file that are searched. The patterns time-stamp-start and time-stamp-end must be found on one of the first time-stamp-line-limit lines of the file for the file to be time-stamped.") (defvar time-stamp-start "Time-stamp: \\\\?[\"<]+" ;Do not change! "Regexp after which the time stamp is written by \\[time-stamp]. See also the variables time-stamp-end and time-stamp-line-limit. Do not change time-stamp-line-limit, time-stamp-start, or time-stamp-end for yourself or you will be incompatible with other people's files! If you must change them for some application, do so in the local variables section of the time-stamped file itself.") (defvar time-stamp-end "\\\\?[\">]" ;Do not change! See comment above. "Regexp marking the text after the time stamp. \\[time-stamp] deletes the text between the first match of time-stamp-start \(which see) and the following match of time-stamp-end on the same line, then writes the time stamp specified by time-stamp-format between them.") ;;;###autoload (defun time-stamp () "Update the time stamp string in the buffer. Only does its thing if the variable time-stamp-active is non-nil. Typically used on write-file-hooks for automatic time-stamping. The format of the time stamp is determined by the variable time-stamp-format. The first time-stamp-line-limit lines of the buffer (normally 8) are searched for the time stamp template, and if it is found, a new time stamp is written into it." (interactive) (if time-stamp-active (let ((case-fold-search nil)) (if (and (stringp time-stamp-start) (stringp time-stamp-end)) (save-excursion (goto-char (point-min)) (if (re-search-forward time-stamp-start (save-excursion (forward-line time-stamp-line-limit) (point)) t) (let ((start (point))) (if (re-search-forward time-stamp-end (save-excursion (end-of-line) (point)) t) (let ((end (match-beginning 0))) (delete-region start end) (goto-char start) (insert (time-stamp-string)) (setq end (point)) ;; remove any tabs used to format the time stamp (goto-char start) (if (search-forward "\t" end t) (untabify start end))))))) ;; don't signal an error in a write-file-hook (message "time-stamp-start or time-stamp-end is not a string")))) ;; be sure to return nil so can be used on write-file-hooks nil) (defun time-stamp-string () "Generate the new string to be inserted by \\[time-stamp]." (time-stamp-fconcat time-stamp-format " ")) (defun time-stamp-fconcat (list sep) "Similar to (mapconcat 'funcall LIST SEP) but LIST can have literals. If an element of LIST is a symbol, it is funcalled to get the string to use; the separator SEP is used between two strings obtained by funcalling a symbol. Otherwise the element itself is inserted; no separator is used around literals." (let ((return-string "") (insert-sep-p nil)) (while list (cond ((symbolp (car list)) (if insert-sep-p (setq return-string (concat return-string sep))) (setq return-string (concat return-string (funcall (car list)))) (setq insert-sep-p t)) (t (setq return-string (concat return-string (car list))) (setq insert-sep-p nil))) (setq list (cdr list))) return-string)) (defconst time-stamp-month-numbers '(("Jan" . 1) ("Feb" . 2) ("Mar" . 3) ("Apr" . 4) ("May" . 5) ("Jun" . 6) ("Jul" . 7) ("Aug" . 8) ("Sep" . 9) ("Oct" . 10) ("Nov" . 11) ("Dec" . 12)) "Assoc list of months and their number.") (defconst time-stamp-month-full-names ["(zero)" "January" "February" "March" "April" "May" "June" "July" "August" "September" "October" "November" "December"]) (defvar time-stamp-mail-host nil "Name of the host where the user receives mail. See the function time-stamp-mail-host-name.") ;;; Some useful functions to use in time-stamp-format ;;; Could generate most of a message-id with ;;; '(yymmdd "" hhmm "@" mail-host-name) (defun time-stamp-mail-host-name () "Return the name of the host where the user receives mail. This is the value of time-stamp-mail-host if bound and a string, otherwise the value of the function system-name." (or (and (boundp 'time-stamp-mail-host) (stringp time-stamp-mail-host) time-stamp-mail-host) (system-name))) (defun time-stamp-current-year () "Return the current year as a four-character string." (substring (current-time-string) -4)) ;;; pretty form, suitable for a title page (defun time-stamp-month-dd-yyyy () "Return the current date as a string in \"Month dd, yyyy\" form." (let ((date (current-time-string))) (format "%s %02d, %s" (aref time-stamp-month-full-names (cdr (assoc (substring date 4 7) time-stamp-month-numbers))) (string-to-int (substring date 8 10)) (substring date -4)))) ;;; same as __DATE__ in ANSI C (defun time-stamp-mon-dd-yyyy () "Return the current date as a string in \"Mon dd yyyy\" form. The first character of dd is Space if the value is less than 10." (let ((date (current-time-string))) (format "%s %2d %s" (substring date 4 7) (string-to-int (substring date 8 10)) (substring date -4)))) ;;; RFC 822 date (defun time-stamp-dd-mon-yy () "Return the current date as a string in \"dd Mon yy\" form." (let ((date (current-time-string))) (format "%02d %s %s" (string-to-int (substring date 8 10)) (substring date 4 7) (substring date -2)))) ;;; RCS 3 date (defun time-stamp-yy/mm/dd () "Return the current date as a string in \"yy/mm/dd\" form." (let ((date (current-time-string))) (format "%s/%02d/%02d" (substring date -2) (cdr (assoc (substring date 4 7) time-stamp-month-numbers)) (string-to-int (substring date 8 10))))) ;;; RCS 5 date (defun time-stamp-yyyy/mm/dd () "Return the current date as a string in \"yyyy/mm/dd\" form." (let ((date (current-time-string))) (format "%s/%02d/%02d" (substring date -4) (cdr (assoc (substring date 4 7) time-stamp-month-numbers)) (string-to-int (substring date 8 10))))) (defun time-stamp-yymmdd () "Return the current date as a string in \"yymmdd\" form." (let ((date (current-time-string))) (format "%s%02d%02d" (substring date -2) (cdr (assoc (substring date 4 7) time-stamp-month-numbers)) (string-to-int (substring date 8 10))))) (defun time-stamp-dd/mm/yy () "Return the current date as a string in \"dd/mm/yy\" form." (let ((date (current-time-string))) (format "%02d/%02d/%s" (string-to-int (substring date 8 10)) (cdr (assoc (substring date 4 7) time-stamp-month-numbers)) (substring date -2)))) (defun time-stamp-mm/dd/yy () "Return the current date as a string in \"mm/dd/yy\" form." (let ((date (current-time-string))) (format "%02d/%02d/%s" (cdr (assoc (substring date 4 7) time-stamp-month-numbers)) (string-to-int (substring date 8 10)) (substring date -2)))) (defun time-stamp-hh:mm:ss () "Return the current time as a string in \"hh:mm:ss\" form." (substring (current-time-string) 11 19)) (defun time-stamp-hh:mm () "Return the current time as a string in \"hh:mm\" form." (substring (current-time-string) 11 16)) (defun time-stamp-hhmm () "Return the current time as a string in \"hhmm\" form." (let ((date (current-time-string))) (concat (substring date 11 13) (substring date 14 16)))) (provide 'time-stamp) ;;; time-stamp.el ends here