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From: Pip Cet <pipcet@gmail.com>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: nested macro expansion?
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 14:43:41 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOqdjBcvUisnc6T-4PqrJNQ7D8wp=nNBqXxCoUGwUJ6L99d1HA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87egizo6mc.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>

Hi Eric,
I know this doesn't answer your actual question about nested macro
expansion, but writing some elisp might help you get the TIMESTAMP
property, at least: both

#+MACRO: bubba (eval (org-entry-get nil "TIMESTAMP"))

and

#+MACRO: bubba (eval (org-macro-expand "{{{property(TIMESTAMP)}}}"
org-macro-templates))

appear to produce the current timestamp, and both can be fed to
another function, but not `format-time-string': the result of
(org-entry-get...) is a string of the form "<2014-08-19>", which would
need to be passed to `org-parse-time-string' first.

On 8/19/15, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> What I'm trying to do is have a macro that takes the computed TIMESTAMP
>> property for an entry, and then runs it through a custom function that
>> breaks out the start/end times, and produces a nicely formatted string
>> from that.
>>
>> I don't see how to write a macro that feeds the value of a computed
>> special property to a function.
>>
>> Right now my testing version looks like this:
>>
>> #+MACRO: bubba (eval (format-time-string "%Y" "$1"))
>>
>> and I'm calling it like this:
>>
>> {{{bubba({{{property(TIMESTAMP)}}})}}}
>>
>> That doesn't expand the interior "{{{property(TIMESTAMP)}}}" clause.
>> What `format-time-string' ends up seeing is "{{{property(TIMESTAMP",
>> without the final braces etc.
>>
>> Is there any way to get that value expanded first, and then passed to
>> `format-time-string' (or, eventually, my custom function)?
>
> After googling for a while, I also thought this might work:
>
> #+MACRO: bubba (eval (format-time-string "%Y" property{{{TIMESTAMP}}}))
>
> {{{bubba}}}
>
> But the nested definition isn't expanded, either with or without quotes.
>
> E
>
>
>

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2015-08-19 14:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-19 11:28 nested macro expansion? Eric Abrahamsen
2015-08-19 11:33 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-08-19 14:43   ` Pip Cet [this message]
2015-08-19 15:03     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-08-19 20:18   ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-08-20  1:24     ` Eric Abrahamsen

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