From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: "Štěpán Němec" <stepnem@gmail.com>
Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Capture template and elisp expression
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 18:58:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5DF061FC-7815-4952-964A-973928399A12@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ipy069os.fsf@gmail.com>
On Jan 7, 2011, at 4:00 PM, Štěpán Němec wrote:
> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Jan 7, 2011, at 1:08 PM, Štěpán Němec wrote:
>>> Why aren't the %() expressions simply evaluated in the original
>>> buffer
>>> (if available)? That would solve these issues in a general way. It
>>> seems
>>> to me that there is no advantage to evaluating the expressions in
>>> the
>>> temporary capture buffer, but I'm not familiar with the code so I
>>> might
>>> be missing something. Is there a reason for that?
>>
>> The sexp can be used to insert stuff into the template, so I think it
>> is correct to evaluate it in the template buffer.
>
> I don't understand this argument. Of course the _result_ of the
> evaluation is inserted into the template, but why is it useful to
> evaluate the expression itself in the context of the template
> buffer? Is
> it likely that one would be interested in some information only
> available in the template buffer? To me it seems that the much more
> likely case is the one of Rainer -- i.e. the need to access variable
> bindings from the original buffer (buffer name, mode, other local
> variables etc.).
Such a function is allowed to do anything. It might search around
in the template, change things, whatever. So I don't think it
should be evaluated in a different buffer.
- Carsten
>
> Štěpán
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-08 17:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-06 12:08 Capture template and elisp expression Rainer M Krug
2011-01-06 22:26 ` Nick Dokos
2011-01-06 22:44 ` Carsten Dominik
2011-01-06 23:41 ` Nick Dokos
2011-01-07 8:22 ` Rainer M Krug
2011-01-07 14:03 ` Nick Dokos
2011-01-07 14:31 ` Rainer M Krug
2011-01-07 12:08 ` Štěpán Němec
2011-01-07 14:14 ` Carsten Dominik
2011-01-07 14:28 ` Rainer M Krug
2011-01-07 15:00 ` Štěpán Němec
2011-01-08 17:58 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2011-01-08 18:07 ` Štěpán Němec
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