Thanks, but it does not work this way.
I know very little about elisp but I don’t understand what part says not to change time-stamp-pattern in original code?
Mine is this based on Jethro’s suggestion, and works perfectly in my markdown files (it should work on any other text file types, like org)
(add-hook 'after-init-hook
(lambda ()
(my/load-md-roam)
;; time stamp
(setq time-stamp-start "modified:[ ]+\\\\?")
(setq time-stamp-end "$")
(setq time-stamp-format "%Y-%m-%dT%H%M%S")
(add-hook 'before-save-hook #'time-stamp)))
For where you can see the recommendation not to change the variable:
The documentation of the variable time-stamp-pattern – you should be able to view it via C-h v (describe-variable)
@nobiot Thanks, I understand now what @jethro meant, I have read time-stamp-pattern doc already.
I was presuming make-local-variable (Alex) or setq-local (Jethro) allows to edit the variable locally only.
Yes. I would use setq-local (just personal convenience; never used the other one).
Tried all the modification in this thread. Only @zaeph method works, no luck with all the time-stamp methods.
The time-stamp seems working though with the following:
(add-hook 'before-save-hook 'time-stamp)
it will fill the date following Time-stamp: <> or Time-stamp: " ", and I can change the time-stamp-format too.
It just does not work with any other keywords. Did anybody else have this issue? I am using Emacs 27.1 in Arch Linux.
What’s the value of time-stamp-start?
If Time-stamp: <> works, then I suspect it’s the matter of configuring this variable – it’s a regex. Have a look at this documentation from Emacs.
This is what worked for me:
I was trying to use time-stamp and had issues as well.
turns out the issue was time-stamp wasn’t searching far enough into the file.
set time-stamp-line-limit to something higher than 8 (default). I set it to 18.
also I am using last_modified and added a space between last_modified and time-stamp.
the following matches
#+last_modified: [2020-12-28 Mon 02:58:51]
on line 9.
(add-hook 'org-mode-hook (lambda ()
(setq-local time-stamp-active t
time-stamp-line-limit 18
time-stamp-start "^#\\+last_modified: [ \t]*"
time-stamp-end "$"
time-stamp-format "\[%Y-%m-%d %a %H:%M:%S\]")
(add-hook 'before-save-hook 'time-stamp nil 'local)))
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Hi, I’m new in org-roam, and stumbled upon this thread wanting to just update my #+LAST_MODIFIED: field in my org-roam files. I have seen many responses, which one would do the job at its simplest? Thanks!
Hey, did you find the working solution?