On 18/4/2006, at 11:57, Quentin Stafford-Fraser wrote:
[...] What I'd really like is that when I create a new file from the template, it immediately gets a filename based on the date - eg. 060418.txt [...]
Maybe instead of using the template facility (which doesn’t provide you much) create the file by other means (e.g. script started from Quicksilver, a regular command), and have the creation script end with: mate «file created».