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From: "Christopher W. Ryan" <cryan@binghamton.edu>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: can I force all-caps in part of a headline in a capture template?
Date: Mon, 07 May 2012 08:28:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FA7BFF5.6010302@binghamton.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bom065bq.fsf@berkeley.edu>

Richard, this is great!  Thank you.

--Chris

Richard Lawrence wrote:
> Richard Lawrence<richard.lawrence@berkeley.edu>  writes:
>
>> Try this: in your .emacs, add the following code:
>>
>> (defun prompt-for-lastname-and-upcase ()
>>    (upcase (read-string "Last name: ")))
>>
>> This defines a function that will prompt the user to type a last name
>> into the minibuffer, converts the result into uppercase, and returns it
>> as a string.
>>
>> Then, in your capture template, change "%^{LASTNAME}" to
>> "%(prompt-for-lastname-and-upcase)".
>
>
> By the way, if you need to do the same thing for other fields, you can
> do something like this instead:
>
> (defun prompt-and-upcase (prompt-str)
>    (upcase (read-string prompt-str)))
>
> This generalizes the original function I gave you; you can pass in a
> prompt string.
>
> Then, in your capture template, wherever you need an uppercase field:
>
> %(prompt-and-upcase "Whatever prompt you need: ")
>
> e.g.,
>
> %(prompt-and-upcase "Last name: ")
>
> Best,
> Richard
>
>

     prev parent reply	other threads:[~2012-05-07 12:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-07  0:20 can I force all-caps in part of a headline in a capture template? Christopher W. Ryan
2012-05-07  3:02 ` Richard Lawrence
2012-05-07  3:24   ` Richard Lawrence
2012-05-07 12:28     ` Christopher W. Ryan [this message]

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