Yes, thanks. That substring was a bad copy. Any insight why the
(shell-command "uuidgen" t) wasn't working?

On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 3:03 AM Diego Zamboni <diego@zzamboni.org> wrote:

> Hi LB,
>
> How about using the =org-id-uuid= function instead of shelling out to
> uuidgen? In my quick test the following seems to behave properly:
>
> (defun template-myid ()
>   (insert "\n:PROPERTIES:\n:TIME: "
>       (format-time-string "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S")
>       "\n:VERTEX: "
>       (org-id-uuid)
>       "\n:EDGES:  \n:END:"))
>
> Note that I also removed the wrapping (substring (format ...)), which
> didn't seem to be necessary.
>
> --Diego
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 5:39 AM Lawrence Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I want to insert upon creating a heading a PROPERTIES drawer. So far I
>> have this
>>
>> (defadvice org-insert-heading (after add-id-stuff activate)
>>   (template-myid))
>>
>> (defun template-myid ()
>>   (insert "\n:PROPERTIES:\n:TIME: "
>>       (substring (format "%s" (format-time-string "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S")))
>>       "\n:VERTEX: "
>>       (substring (format "%s" (shell-command "uuidgen" t)))
>>       "\n:EDGES:  \n:END:"))
>>
>> This is working -- sort of. My problem is the uuid is getting thrown
>> around. The output looks like this
>>
>> * Heading
>> :PROPERTIES:
>> :TIME: 2020-03-10T23:34:17
>> :VERTEX: 12836
>> :EDGES:
>> :END:32bf9499-f9e2-49d9-b8e7-9edb40272411
>>
>> Not sure how to make this behave.
>>
>> LB
>>
>