Re: Issue with remember templates

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Francis Moreau <francis.moro@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Issue with remember templates
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 14:11:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <578B2E86-5989-4894-92A4-9A3ED89F75F0@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <38b2ab8a0912310356h90f41d3kd1978d85af1eac46@mail.gmail.com>

On Dec 31, 2009, at 12:56 PM, Francis Moreau wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'd like to note my work's holidays using remember.
>
> For this, I have a org file (work.org for example) which contains the
> following headline:
>
> * Holidays
> #+CATEGORY: Holiday
> %%(diary-date 12 '(4 7) 2009) Day Off
>
> I also created the following template to speed up the process of
> entering a new holiday entri:
>
> ("Holidays" ?h "* %% (diary-date %?) Day Off" "work.org" "Holidays")
>
> But as you can notice, this doesn't exactly create the entry I
> described previously since it does:
>
> * %% (diary-date ) Day Off
>
> I had to insert some spaces otherwise Org tries to evaluate the Elisp
> SEXP. I tried to use some backslashes in several ways like
> '\%(diary-date )' but it has no effect.

"* %\\%(diary-date %?) Day Off"

should work.

>
> The other problem is that Org ensures that the new entry has a
> headline so I had to start the template with '*'. But I don't want
> this since I read that the sexp entries must start at the left margin.

You can use

("Holidays" ?h "* Day Off <%\\%(diary-date %?)>" "work.org" "Holidays")

HTH

- Carsten

>
> Could anybody give me some hints to solve these 2 issues ?
>
> Thanks
> -- 
> Francis
>
>
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- Carsten