From: Kyle Meyer <kyle@kyleam.com>
To: Bala Ramadurai <nikimonikado@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: help with sexp in org-capture-template
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2020 20:36:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pncl1xgv.fsf@kyleam.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABp2F2aro=kiN2NDC6gRHWjQVWoRspC2WcFB6CR1Cz3yS8yBkg@mail.gmail.com>
Hi Bala,
Bala Ramadurai <nikimonikado@gmail.com> writes:
> I am working on a org-capture-template and one of the entries is a date (30
> days later) I want in European format.
>
> My solution is this:
> | *Due Date*: %(concat (substring (org-read-date nil nil "+30d") 8 10) "-"
> (substring(org-read-date nil nil "+30d") 5 7) "-" (substring(org-read-date
> nil nil "+30d") 0 4)) |
>
> Although this does the job, it is extremely inelegant and only reflects my
> poor knowledge in elisp.
>
> Can any of you please help me in making this code better?
Does the job is the important part :) One thing you could do that'd
make it a little nicer to my eyes is let-binding
(org-read-date nil nil "+30d")
result to avoid calling it three times.
Here's another approach:
(format-time-string "%d-%m-%Y" (time-add (days-to-time 30) nil))
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2020-04-01 5:10 ` help with sexp in org-capture-template Bala Ramadurai
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