Just to put in my two cents regarding the idea of "hotkeys" manipulating applications and "hotstrings" (like your timestamp). I apologize in advance for straying from the purpose of the list, but thought this might be helpful.
I prefer implementing these at the level of the OS rather than inside a given app. The advantage of course is that I have the same datestamps and timestamps (and any other commonly used boilerplate hotstrings) available across all my applications. I didn't see if you mentioned your platform, but if it's windoze, I highly recommend AutoHotKey. Here's the relevant bits from my "hotstrings.ahk", which I have set to always active in the background. To use any of the strings, I just type e.g. "ids" and press ids followed by tab or enter and get "2011-06-10", idts gives me "2011-06-10T10:48+7", dth is: 10:49 Friday, 10 June, 2011 - Hans Henderson - [email protected] ==================== ;date/time-stamp + HH ::dth:: FormatTime, TimeString, YYYYMMDDHH24MISS, HH:mm dddd, d MMMM, yyyy SendInput, %TimeString% - Hans Henderson - [email protected] return ;date/time-stamp ::dts:: FormatTime, TimeString, YYYYMMDDHH24MISS, HH:mm dddd, d MMMM, yyyy SendInput, %TimeString% return ;date-stamp (human-readable) ::ds:: FormatTime, TimeString, YYYYMMDD, dddd, d MMMM, yyyy SendInput, %TimeString% return ;time-stamp (human-readable) ::ts:: FormatTime, TimeString, HHmm, HH:mm SendInput, %TimeString% return ;ISO date-stamp ::ids:: FormatTime, TimeString, YYYYMMDD, yyyy-MM-dd SendInput, %TimeString% return ;ISO date/time-stamp ::idts:: FormatTime, TimeString, YYYYMMDDHH24MISS, yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm SendInput, %TimeString%{+}7 return ================================== And a link to a relevant spot in the AHK docs: http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/Hotstrings.htm On Jun 8, 2:25 am, MHill <[email protected]> wrote: > I am hoping someone can tell me how to achieve the following behavior > in Tiddlywiki: > > When I click the Edit link on a tiddler that already contains some > content, a couple of newlines and '[current date/time]: ' are > automatically appended in the edit box before I begin typing. > > For example, if an existing tiddler contains the following text: > > "This is the first comment." > > clicking edit would open the edit box containing the following: > > "This it the first comment. > > [2011-06-07 1:30 PM]: " > > and the edit cursor would be positioned at the end of the original + > automatically added text. > > Also, if the tiddler does not yet contain any text, the same would > happen with the exception of the 2 newline characters. > > Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
