On Tue, Mar 22, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:

On 22.3.2011, at 15:25, Chao LU wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Just writing to see if it is possible to use variable in org-capture configuration, like this
>
> (setq org-capture-templates
> '(("t" "Todo" entry (file "~/org/refile.org") "* TODO %?\n %i\n %a" :prepend t)))
> ------------------------
> \---How could I use-> (concat My-Dropbox-Path "refile.org")
>
> Since I put all my files in Dropbox, and the My-Dropbox-Path has different values under MAC and M$Windows.

Using backquote as the others in this thread say is one possibility.
However, you can also get the latest version of Org - it does
allow a lisp form for the file name:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/38067/match=form

- Carsten

>
> Thanks,
>
> Chao