* org-capture-template: How to correctly capture email addresses?
@ 2011-11-06 10:49 Marius Hofert
2011-11-08 21:04 ` Marius Hofert
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Marius Hofert @ 2011-11-06 10:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Emacs help
Hi,
I would like to capture contacts (name, email,..) with org-mode and thus setup the following in .emacs:
(setq org-capture-templates
'(("t" "TODO in ~/org/agenda.org -> Tasks" entry (file+headline "~/org/agenda.org" "Tasks")
"* TODO %?\nSCHEDULED: %^t\n%U %a")
("c" "Contact in ~/org/contacts.org -> Contact" entry (file+headline "~/org/contacts.org" "Contact")
"* %?%(org-contacts-template-name) %^g
:PROPERTIES:
:EMAIL: %(org-contacts-template-email)
:URL:
:WORK:
:HOME:
:MOBILE:
:LOCATION:
:BIRTHDAY:
:NOTE:
:END:")))
I can easily capture contacts with C-c c c, it prompts for the name, a tag, and the email address. However, instead of an output like
* My contact :my.tag:
:PROPERTIES:
:EMAIL: my.contact@my.mail.com
:URL:
:WORK:
:HOME:
:MOBILE:
:LOCATION:
:BIRTHDAY:
:NOTE:
:END:
I obtain:
* My contact :my.tag:
:PROPERTIES:
:EMAIL:
:URL:
:WORK:
:HOME:
:MOBILE:
:LOCATION:
:BIRTHDAY:
:NOTE:
:EMAIL: my.contact@my.mail.com
:END:
So the problem is that the first :EMAIL: is ignored and instead a second :EMAIL: is inserted before :END:. How can I obtain the correct output (as described above)?
Cheers,
Marius
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* Re: org-capture-template: How to correctly capture email addresses?
2011-11-06 10:49 org-capture-template: How to correctly capture email addresses? Marius Hofert
@ 2011-11-08 21:04 ` Marius Hofert
2011-11-09 9:34 ` Christian Moe
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Marius Hofert @ 2011-11-08 21:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Emacs help
see here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8037953/org-mode-how-to-correctly-capture-email-addresses
On 2011-11-06, at 11:49 , Marius Hofert wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to capture contacts (name, email,..) with org-mode and thus setup the following in .emacs:
>
> (setq org-capture-templates
> '(("t" "TODO in ~/org/agenda.org -> Tasks" entry (file+headline "~/org/agenda.org" "Tasks")
> "* TODO %?\nSCHEDULED: %^t\n%U %a")
> ("c" "Contact in ~/org/contacts.org -> Contact" entry (file+headline "~/org/contacts.org" "Contact")
> "* %?%(org-contacts-template-name) %^g
> :PROPERTIES:
> :EMAIL: %(org-contacts-template-email)
> :URL:
> :WORK:
> :HOME:
> :MOBILE:
> :LOCATION:
> :BIRTHDAY:
> :NOTE:
> :END:")))
>
> I can easily capture contacts with C-c c c, it prompts for the name, a tag, and the email address. However, instead of an output like
>
> * My contact :my.tag:
> :PROPERTIES:
> :EMAIL: my.contact@my.mail.com
> :URL:
> :WORK:
> :HOME:
> :MOBILE:
> :LOCATION:
> :BIRTHDAY:
> :NOTE:
> :END:
>
> I obtain:
>
> * My contact :my.tag:
> :PROPERTIES:
> :EMAIL:
> :URL:
> :WORK:
> :HOME:
> :MOBILE:
> :LOCATION:
> :BIRTHDAY:
> :NOTE:
> :EMAIL: my.contact@my.mail.com
> :END:
>
> So the problem is that the first :EMAIL: is ignored and instead a second :EMAIL: is inserted before :END:. How can I obtain the correct output (as described above)?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marius
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* Re: org-capture-template: How to correctly capture email addresses?
2011-11-08 21:04 ` Marius Hofert
@ 2011-11-09 9:34 ` Christian Moe
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Christian Moe @ 2011-11-09 9:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Marius Hofert; +Cc: Emacs help
Hi,
If org-contacts-template-email doesn't find an address, it doesn't
insert a simple text prompt, it inserts a property prompt, which sets
the property. A property prompt does not need to be positioned in an
explicit property drawer in the template -- in fact, it looks like
that will not work.
Removing the EMAIL property and moving the
"%(org-contacts-template-email)" field out of the property drawer works:
(setq org-capture-templates
'(("t" "TODO in ~/org/agenda.org -> Tasks" entry (file+headline
"~/org/agenda.org" "Tasks")
"* TODO %?\nSCHEDULED: %^t\n%U %a")
("c" "Contact in ~/org/contacts.org -> Contact" entry
(file+headline "~/org/contacts.org" "Contact")
"* %?%(org-contacts-template-name) %^g
%(org-contacts-template-email)
:PROPERTIES:
:URL:
:WORK:
:HOME:
:MOBILE:
:LOCATION:
:BIRTHDAY:
:NOTE:
:END:")))
You still get EMAIL at the end of the property drawer, but the order
is arbitrary anyway. You could replace the whole properties drawer
with property prompts:
(setq org-capture-templates
'(("t" "TODO in ~/org/agenda.org -> Tasks" entry (file+headline
"~/org/agenda.org" "Tasks")
"* TODO %?\nSCHEDULED: %^t\n%U %a")
("c" "Contact in ~/org/contacts.org -> Contact" entry
(file+headline "~/org/contacts.org" "Contact")
"* %?%(org-contacts-template-name) %^g
%(org-contacts-template-email)
%^{URL}p %^{WORK}p %^{HOME}p %^{MOBILE}p
%^{LOCATION}p %^{BIRTHDAY}p %^{NOTE}p")))
...but then you'd be prompted for everything, each time; you may not
want that.
Yours,
Christian
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