emacs-orgmode@gnu.org archives
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: Brad Knotwell <bknotwell@yahoo.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: reliably using org-capture with table-line
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2018 18:03:28 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1778945075.862984.1523297008764@mail.yahoo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1778945075.862984.1523297008764.ref@mail.yahoo.com

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 1743 bytes --]

Good day all--

I just found the capture feature and I've set it up for a couple of things but I'm having trouble with table-line.  There is some pattern of usage that breaks it and (despite numerous trials) I can't find the magic that makes it work reliably.  I have a definition like the following (usecase:  add a row every time off request is approved):
("Tp" "PTO" table-line (file "~/notes/pto.org")    "| %(read-string \"Who: \") | %(org-read-date nil nil nil \"Start:\") | %(org-read-date nil nil nil \"End:\") |"    :kill-buffer t)
I'm trying to create a table like the following:

| *Who*   |    *Start* |      *End* ||---------+------------+------------||         |            |            || Larry    | 2018-04-12 | 2018-04-16 || Curly    | 2018-04-09 | 2018-04-13 || Moe | 2018-04-13 | 2018-04-20 |
It sort of works.  If I start without a table, it'll create the first row (sans headers) fine.  Likewise, I can add a rows to the table and that seems to be stable.  However, if I edit the file in some way, it's likely (not always as far as I can tell) that the next entry is written as a new single-row table which indicates org-capture.el:org-capture-place-table-line couldn't find the first table in the file.  Furthermore, when I save the capture, I'll get an error message "Capture process aborted, but target buffer could not be cleaned up correctly."
Finally, I've read the documentation for :table-line-pos numerous times and still don't know what it does.
Since the second table it added to the file, I can workaround this by hand-merging the two tables occasionally.
Now that I've described all this, my question:  how do others reliably use this feature?

Thx.
--Brad

[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/html, Size: 2427 bytes --]

           reply	other threads:[~2018-04-09 18:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed
 [parent not found: <1778945075.862984.1523297008764.ref@mail.yahoo.com>]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.orgmode.org/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=1778945075.862984.1523297008764@mail.yahoo.com \
    --to=bknotwell@yahoo.com \
    --cc=emacs-orgmode@gnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).