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From: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>
Subject: Re: Capture template -- Global replacement of prompt string in
 buffer?
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 19:33:21 -0500
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Michael Baum <maabaum@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm not sure (because I didn't understand what was going on) if this is t=
he same question that Sebastian Fischmeister=C2=A0 asked earlier ("Custom e=
scapes & the evaluation order in fill-template"), but is it
> possible to construct a capture template using something like the %{promp=
t} that replaces _all_ occurrences of the prompt string throughout the capt=
ure buffer,=C2=A0 rather than just at the insertion point of
> the escape expression?
>
> I want to do something like this:
> -----------8<--------------------------------
> ("p" "phone log" entry (file+datetree org-phone-log)
> "* %^{Organization} - %^{First Name} %^{Last Name}
> :PROPERTIES:
> :FIRST_NAME: {First Name}
> :LAST_NAME: {Last Name}
> :ORG: {Organization}
> :END:
>
> usw.
> -----------8<--------------------------------
>
> where the value entered in response to {First Name} gets globally substit=
uted in two or more places in the template.
>
> Can this be done?

Hi Michael,

Yes this is possible but you have to reference the prompt fields by
position.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
("p" "phone log" entry (file+datetree org-phone-log)
 "* %^{Organization} - %^{First Name} %^{Last Name}
:PROPERTIES:
:FIRST_NAME: %\\2
:LAST_NAME: %\\3
:ORG: %\\1
:END:
")
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Should do what you want I think.

Regards,
Bernt