From: Matthew Sauer <improv.philosophy@gmail.com>
To: David Maus <dmaus@ictsoc.de>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Buck Brody <buckbrody@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: create new files from capture
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 14:49:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTikL-aiBWvKDieTF0xx0jZckVDzf1w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pqp1q18t.wl%dmaus@ictsoc.de>
Could one not have it go into a temporary file and then have an exit
hook attatched to a particular template that if a particular property
had been filled in that it would create a new file with that name and
either refile to or cut to and then paste from the kill ring?
Matthew
obviously would require some modification/hacking
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:12 PM, David Maus <dmaus@ictsoc.de> wrote:
> At Fri, 1 Apr 2011 13:43:06 -0400,
> Buck Brody wrote:
>> Is there a way to use capture to create new files? Can I fill out
>> the name of the file, and add a date stamp, from within the capture
>> template?
>
> Prompting in the templates happens after the template is placed in the
> target buffer. So AFAIK there is no way to achive this without a
> little bit hacking: You could specify a target function
>
> target Specification of where the captured item should be placed.
> In Org-mode files, targets usually define a node. Entries will
> become children of this node, other types will be added to the
> table or list in the body of this node.
>
> Most target specifications contain a file name. If that file
> name is the empty string, it defaults to `org-default-notes-file'.
> A file can also be given as a variable, function, or Emacs Lisp
> form.
>
> ...
>
> (function function-finding-location)
> Most general way, write your own function to find both
> file and location
>
> That could read the target file name with a prompt.
>
>> I also considered creating a new headline and then exporting the
>> subtree. The problem is that I need to have the title of the new
>> file automatically created based upon the headline, and I can't
>> figure out how to do this.
>
> Same here. The function `org-heading-components' (C-h f
> org-heading-components RET) will get you the title of the headline
> which you would have to transform to a valid file name
> (i.e. `replace-regexp-in-string').
>
> Best,
> -- David
> --
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-04 19:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-01 17:43 create new files from capture Buck Brody
2011-04-04 19:12 ` David Maus
2011-04-04 19:49 ` Matthew Sauer [this message]
2011-04-20 19:00 ` Bill Wishon
2011-04-20 19:22 ` Bill Wishon
2011-04-20 19:44 ` Nick Dokos
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