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From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Capture with org-directory not working?
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 16:05:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lgw2ro7j.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CAGOCFPX-yt9gMwjHvS8B0b6V69=UDRgepPX4jn_P_scigMfJSg@mail.gmail.com

Alexander Vorobiev <alexander.vorobiev@gmail.com> writes:

> I have recently started having this issue with my capture templates. In my case I want to ask the user
> (me) which file should be used to store the note, so I have a bunch of templates like this
>
> (setq org-capture-templates
>              '(("o" "Project todo" entry (file+headline (av/choose-agenda-file) "Tasks") ))
>
> where av/choose-agenda-file uses completing-read to ask the user to choose a file from a list it
> constructs on the fly. This approach has worked for years and now it results in the "invalid file
> location" message. The backquote does not help because the function needs to be called at run time, not
> when the variable is defined.
>

IIUC, you cannot use arbitrary sexps, but you *can* use

("o" "Project todo" entry (file+headline (lambda () (av/choose-agenda-file)) "Tasks"))

Other plausible forms (e.g. (function av/choose-agenda-file) or (quote av/choose-agenda-file) )
run afoul of the abritrary sexp exception and do not work AFAICS.

-- 
Nick

  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-29 21:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-19 13:46 Capture with org-directory not working? Rainer M Krug
2016-09-19 15:47 ` Nick Dokos
2016-09-20  7:25   ` Rainer M Krug
2016-09-20 15:00     ` Adam Porter
2016-09-20 16:03       ` Rainer Krug
2016-09-20 17:08         ` Adam Porter
2016-09-21  7:05           ` Rainer Krug
2016-09-21 11:51             ` Adam Porter
2016-09-21 12:49               ` Rainer M Krug
2016-11-29 19:23                 ` Alexander Vorobiev
2016-11-29 21:05                   ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2016-11-30  5:15                     ` Alexander Vorobiev
2016-11-30 16:45                       ` Nick Dokos

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