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From: asr@ufl.edu (Allen S. Rout)
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Clean capture from command line?
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:43:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eialkniq.fsf@ufl.edu> (raw)



I'm one of the legion gradually slipping more and more of my day-to-day
process into org-mode.  (Thanks, Carsten!)

One of the things I'd like to be able to do is capture a new TODO from a
command line.  e.g.

shell$ capture "Fred wants a new database VM, 60G"

and maybe eventually something obnoxious with e.g. zenity, so that a key
chord popped up a text dialog which would just seamlessly get fed to
org-capture.  Basically, I want to make the notation and just keep
sailing. Of course, I've got the relevant org files open in an emacs on
another desktop: miles and miles away. :) The obvious solution

shell$ emacsclient -c -e "(org-capture)"

(and maybe a '-t', to keep it in the tty) 

has a problem: when I finish the capture, I'm left with the session, and
worse, when I try to close the emacsclient, (C-x #) it tells me "No
server buffers remain to edit", and I have to M-x delete-frame.
Harshing my buzz, definitely.


A gmane search on 'capture command line' in this group didn't seem to
help much.  Am I thinking about the problem the wrong way?  How do
you-all do that sort of ad-hoc capture?



- Allen S. Rout

next             reply	other threads:[~2010-11-16 21:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-16 20:43 Allen S. Rout [this message]
2010-11-16 22:26 ` Clean capture from command line? Eric S Fraga
2010-11-16 23:35   ` Friedrich Delgado
2010-11-18 17:32     ` Allen S. Rout
2010-11-27  6:56       ` [Accepted] " Carsten Dominik
2010-11-17 18:24 ` tycho garen
2010-11-17 19:11   ` Eric S Fraga
2010-11-18  2:18     ` Matt Lundin
2010-11-18  7:20       ` Eric S Fraga

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