From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Karl Voit Subject: mktemp for orgmode Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 17:15:23 +0100 Message-ID: <2018-03-17T17-12-27@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> Reply-To: Karl Voit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43684) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1exEUf-0007yb-0L for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Mar 2018 12:15:42 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1exEUb-0006oS-Q7 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Mar 2018 12:15:40 -0400 Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=44531 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1exEUb-0006lU-Im for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Mar 2018 12:15:37 -0400 Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1exESS-0006sQ-NU for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Mar 2018 17:13:24 +0100 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi, I sometimes wonder if there is something like mktemp[1] in org-mode as, e.g., a built-in macro. For example, PlantUML in orgmode[2] requires a file header argument to write the image output to: ":file myoutput.svg" In most cases, I really don't care about the output file and its location. I just want to see it in my org-mode buffer and in various output formats like PDF or HTML. When I don't want to trash my org folder, I have to use ":file /tmp/tmp.svg". The downside of it is, that this only works for non-Windows systems because there is no "/tmp" on Windows. Therefore, it would be cool to have something like {{{tmpfile}}} that I could use in :file {{{tmpfile}}} However, there is still an issue with this approach: what if I need multiple separate {{{tmpfile}}} for, e.g., multiple PlantUML blocks that are within the same heading and therefore get exported at once? And: as a consequence, it would require {{{tmpdir}}} as well. [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/autogen/mktemp.html [2] http://plantuml.com/emacs -- get mail|git|SVN|photos|postings|SMS|phonecalls|RSS|CSV|XML into Org-mode: > get Memacs from https://github.com/novoid/Memacs < Personal Information Management > http://Karl-Voit.at/tags/pim/ Emacs-related > http://Karl-Voit.at/tags/emacs/