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I used to use tomboy wiki and they allowed you to bind opening a new note to a keyboard combination.

I use emacs on Lion and I want replicate this behaviour. I want to visit a new/existing file in my projects folder named yyyymmdd.md by pressing shift-z-command anywhere.

It might be possible to use automator to run a shell script that gets the iso date and then appends the directory path and .md at the end. Then it calls emacs with those arguments. As a service I can assign it to a keyboard combination. But I have no idea how to complete the steps exactly.

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I don't know of any freeware that does this, but here are some shareware apps :

http://nulana.com/shortcuts

http://www.alfredapp.com/ - You need the paid powerpack

http://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/index.html - Not exactly what you want, but with an action/script you can make it work.

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#!/bin/bash

date=$(date '+%Y%m%d')
f="$HOME/Desktop/$date.md"
[[ ! -f "$f" ]] && echo $'## $date\n' > "$f"
# emacs "$f"
open "$f" -a Aquamacs

And Assign a shortcut to running a script in OS X - Super User

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  • I believe emacs just visits the file. If it doesn't exist it is created. – Fire Oct 14 '11 at 20:17
  • If you want to open an emacs app you can just use record using applescript, then run it with `osascript -e `. – Fire Oct 15 '11 at 01:44
  • @Fire Only a few apps (like Finder and BBEdit) support recording AppleScripts. `open -a SomeApp` is pretty much equivalent to `osascript -e $'tell app "SomeApp"\nreopen\nactivate\nend tell'`. `osascript` is a lot slower though. – Lri Oct 15 '11 at 03:03
  • I'm just wondering if I can use open -a Emacs with a filename? – Fire Oct 15 '11 at 07:25
  • If you mean the graphical Emacs.app, then yeah. – Lri Oct 15 '11 at 07:35
  • I couldn't get it to work. – Fire Oct 15 '11 at 22:40
  • I did; it's time to turn it into an apple script. I also have to figure out how test if a file !exist, then create file with `## YYYYMMDD\n` – Fire Oct 15 '11 at 22:47
  • You removed the applescript `.scpt` part placed into the scripts directory to launch from fastscripts. – Fire Oct 22 '11 at 19:55
  • @Fire Huh? I just edited out the note to `chmod u+x /path/to/script`. And you can also use FastScripts to run shell scripts. – Lri Oct 22 '11 at 21:08