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From: Darlan Cavalcante Moreira <darcamo@gmail.com>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to use org-capture with "dynamic ID" targets?
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:20:45 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5107dac1.e1c8ec0a.51ec.ffff8838@mx.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871ud4imqa.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>


It works!
Thanks Eric.

The backquote plus ',' did the job. I now understand why my previous
attempts didn't work and I can imagine what would be necessary to implement
the feature I requested (not worth it).

--
Darlan

At Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:26:05 +0800,
Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
> 
> Darlan Cavalcante Moreira <darcamo@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > At Thu, 24 Jan 2013 20:01:47 +0100,
> > Bastien wrote:
> >> Did you tried this?
> >> 
> >> (setq org-capture-templates
> >>  `(("f" "The template description" table-line
> >>         (id ,some_variable)
> >>         "this is the template content"
> >>         :table-line-pos "II-1"
> >>         :immediate-finish t)))
>  
> > This is something I'll have to keep in mind. However, I don't expect this
> > to be a problem since I start Emacs everyday. It is enough for me if I can
> > set the ID to a variable (before setting org-capture-templates) and it uses
> > the variable value as the ID, instead of trying to interpret the variable
> > name as the ID. In fact, even if I ever need to change the variable value
> > after org-capture-templates was set I'm fine by just reevaluating (setq
> > org-capture-templates ...) again so that it sees the new value.
> 
> 
> > Exactly. Simple using the value of whatever list object I put there. Be it
> > a variable value or a function that provides the. I'm fine if the value
> > provided by a variable or a function is only read when
> > org-capture-templates is set.
> 
> > My lisp knowledge is very limited to what I have seen in my Emacs
> > initialization (and a lot of trying and error). But I have never seen "@"
> > used in lisp nor I know what terms to search for it..
> 
> All this above is pretty much exactly what you're looking for. Check out
> the "Backquote" section of the elisp manual for a pretty good
> introduction. If you quote using a backtick (`) rather than an
> apostrophe ('), you can use the comma (,) later on to evaluate variable
> values, see the example at top. I don't believe you need the @ here, but
> the manual section I mentioned explains it.
> 
> I used to do this in my agenda commands, but it wasn't really practical
> because of the "only evaluate once" problem. If you restart emacs every
> day, that won't really be an issue for you.
> 
> E
> 
> 

      reply	other threads:[~2013-01-29 14:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-16 22:38 How to use org-capture with "dynamic ID" targets? Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
2013-01-24 19:01 ` Bastien
2013-01-28 18:05   ` Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
2013-01-29  5:26     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2013-01-29 14:20       ` Darlan Cavalcante Moreira [this message]

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