From: Alexander Vorobiev <alexander.vorobiev@gmail.com>
To: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Capture with org-directory not working?
Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 23:15:14 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAGOCFPWosA85V4QGZ+EtZ4a57H3uB1XJ6rviio4147ov1LUhWA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lgw2ro7j.fsf@gmail.com>
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The workaround with lambda worked, thanks a lot! As I mentioned I didn't
have any problems with the templates in years but they stopped working
after a recent update.
Alex
On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 3:05 PM, Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com> wrote:
> Alexander Vorobiev <alexander.vorobiev@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I have recently started having this issue with my capture templates. In
> my case I want to ask the user
> > (me) which file should be used to store the note, so I have a bunch of
> templates like this
> >
> > (setq org-capture-templates
> > '(("o" "Project todo" entry (file+headline
> (av/choose-agenda-file) "Tasks") ))
> >
> > where av/choose-agenda-file uses completing-read to ask the user to
> choose a file from a list it
> > constructs on the fly. This approach has worked for years and now it
> results in the "invalid file
> > location" message. The backquote does not help because the function
> needs to be called at run time, not
> > when the variable is defined.
> >
>
> IIUC, you cannot use arbitrary sexps, but you *can* use
>
> ("o" "Project todo" entry (file+headline (lambda ()
> (av/choose-agenda-file)) "Tasks"))
>
> Other plausible forms (e.g. (function av/choose-agenda-file) or (quote
> av/choose-agenda-file) )
> run afoul of the abritrary sexp exception and do not work AFAICS.
>
> --
> Nick
>
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-30 5:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-19 13:46 Capture with org-directory not working? Rainer M Krug
2016-09-19 15:47 ` Nick Dokos
2016-09-20 7:25 ` Rainer M Krug
2016-09-20 15:00 ` Adam Porter
2016-09-20 16:03 ` Rainer Krug
2016-09-20 17:08 ` Adam Porter
2016-09-21 7:05 ` Rainer Krug
2016-09-21 11:51 ` Adam Porter
2016-09-21 12:49 ` Rainer M Krug
2016-11-29 19:23 ` Alexander Vorobiev
2016-11-29 21:05 ` Nick Dokos
2016-11-30 5:15 ` Alexander Vorobiev [this message]
2016-11-30 16:45 ` Nick Dokos
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