Re: Capture into subheading of current headline

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Nathan Neff <nathan.neff@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Capture into subheading of current headline
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 14:05:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <C93AFD74-8B08-4AF1-AAD3-9571BEEF2138@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinm3TH+4kxfvgSZ2x8wLTBAn_WrD4V15mqLyxBp@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Nathan,

On Nov 28, 2010, at 8:10 PM, Nathan Neff wrote:

> I think I'm missing something obvious here -- I can't
> define a capture template that puts the results as a sub-heading
> of the heading that the cursor is currently in.

To insert a capture entry at point can be done with a zero prefix  
argument

C-0 C-c r

which will work for any "entry" templates you have defined.

I guess we could also have a special target for this.
To make your own, make the target function point at the *parent*  
headline.

- Carsten

>
> For example:
>
> * Some Heading
> <cursor is here>
> some text in this heading
> <I want to use org-capture to put a subheading here>
>
> I tried defining a template that used the "org-end-of-subtree"  
> function:
>
> (setq org-capture-templates
>     `(("x" "Subheading" entry (function org-end-of-subtree) "*
> %?\n\n" :clock-in t :clock-resume t)
>      )
>  )
>
> But, the captured data is inserted as a sibling heading
> in front of the heading where the cursor is, like this:
>
> * <The result of my capture template>
> * Some Heading
> <cursor is here>
> ** < I want the result of the capture template here>
>
> I've also tried "outline-next-heading", and "outline-end-of-subtree"
> but they add
> non-subtree headlines, and insert into #+begin_src / #+end_src blocks,
> which is undesirable
>
> I've also tried the solution proposed in this thread, but haven't
> quite got it correct:
> http://www.mail-archive.com/emacs-orgmode@gnu.org/msg28946.html
>
> Any help appreciated,
>
> Thanks,
> --Nate
>
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