* feature request: modify org-attach to also create new (non-text) attachments
@ 2019-07-20 21:56 Simon Campese
2020-02-04 8:09 ` Bastien
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Simon Campese @ 2019-07-20 21:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Hello,
while in orgmode, I frequently create some handwritten notes (using
a wacom tablet and xournalpp) and attach it to the current
headline. My ad-hoc solution is the following trivial modification of
org-attach-new (only the second to last line has changed):
(defun org-attach-new-external (file)
"Create a new attachment FILE for the current task.
The attachment is created as an Emacs buffer."
(interactive "sCreate attachment named: ")
(when (and org-attach-file-list-property (not org-attach-inherited))
(org-entry-add-to-multivalued-property
(point) org-attach-file-list-property file))
(let ((attach-dir (org-attach-dir t)))
(org-attach-tag)
(call-process "~/bin/myscript.sh" nil nil nil (expand-file-name file attach-dir))
(message "New attachment %s" file)))
Here, ~/bin/myscript.sh $FILE creates a new xopp-file $FILE by copying from
an empty template and then opens it in xournalpp. Another use case could
be audio/video recordings, for example during a meeting.
It would be nice to add this functionality directly to
org-attach by generalizing the above function
'org-attach-new-external' and associating it to the key 'N'. This
function would
1. ask the user for a filename and a program, taken from some variable,
say 'org-attach-new-external-programs-alist' which contains entries of
the form ("short_name" . "program"). Each program of this list should,
when called via 'program $filename', create a file $filename in some way
(by copying from a template and then letting the user edit, starting an
audio recording etc.)
2. build the filename, optionally using some function stored in
'org-attach-new-create-filename-function' which takes the user input as an
argument (to for example automatically insert the date, the name of the
org-headline etc.)
3. call 'program $filename' and exit
What do you think?
Best regards,
Simon
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* Re: feature request: modify org-attach to also create new (non-text) attachments
2019-07-20 21:56 feature request: modify org-attach to also create new (non-text) attachments Simon Campese
@ 2020-02-04 8:09 ` Bastien
2020-02-05 5:10 ` stardiviner
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Bastien @ 2020-02-04 8:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Simon Campese; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
Hi Simon,
Simon Campese <emacs-orgmode@campese.de> writes:
> while in orgmode, I frequently create some handwritten notes (using
> a wacom tablet and xournalpp) and attach it to the current
> headline. My ad-hoc solution is the following trivial modification of
> org-attach-new (only the second to last line has changed):
if this is still relevant, can you send a patch against org-attach.el
from the master branch?
See https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contribute.html on how to contribute.
Thanks,
--
Bastien
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* Re: feature request: modify org-attach to also create new (non-text) attachments
2020-02-04 8:09 ` Bastien
@ 2020-02-05 5:10 ` stardiviner
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: stardiviner @ 2020-02-05 5:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode; +Cc: Simon Campese
Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> writes:
> Hi Simon,
>
> Simon Campese <emacs-orgmode@campese.de> writes:
>
>> while in orgmode, I frequently create some handwritten notes (using
>> a wacom tablet and xournalpp) and attach it to the current
>> headline. My ad-hoc solution is the following trivial modification of
>> org-attach-new (only the second to last line has changed):
>
> if this is still relevant, can you send a patch against org-attach.el
> from the master branch?
>
> See https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contribute.html on how to contribute.
>
> Thanks,
Agreed, I like this method. I have this needs too. Hope this can be added into org-attach. Simon :)
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