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Insert a comment with username and date in emacs

November 8, 2007

Submitted by: Fahdos

Category: Computers

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Add the following to your .emacs file:

;; insert a comment w/ name and date
(defun insert-comment ()
  (interactive)
  (comment-dwim "")
  (insert-string "!!! ")
  (insert-string (getenv "USER"))
  (insert (format-time-string " %Y%m%d: ")))

To use it, just type “M-x insert-comment“.
If it’s too much work for you, you can add a shortcut for it, again, in your .emacs, after the insert-comment definition, add the following:

(global-set-key "C-xv" 'insert-comment)

Now you can insert your comment with just “C-x v“