From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: "Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com>
Cc: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>, Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>,
emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: Questions about org-capture templates and usage
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 09:20:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DD780C55-6DE7-4836-B443-FCEC8EEF439C@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikNMhzBhuDFVOnQ8pn-vuG7brzMHE86yfThi4Wi@mail.gmail.com>
On Dec 6, 2010, at 6:02 AM, Alan E. Davis wrote:
> I am at much greater ease due to these two messages. They solve
> several of my befuddlements about capture.
>
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> wrote:
> I visit newly captured items all the time. If you capture something
> (I
> have C-M-r bound to org-capture) and store it with C-c C-c you can
> visit
> it immediately with a double prefix C-u C-u C-M-r as stated in the
> org-capture docstring:
>
> This is exactly what I was looking for in the manual.
Wow, I cannot believe I forgot to put these into the manual! Crazy.
They are in not (git version).
> In fact, I think my comment about the manual was partly a response
> to being unable to find this item in the manual, when I know I had
> seen reference to it somewhere. Maybe in my request for items to be
> included in the manual, the docstrings in org-capture.el would be
> scanned. I missed this on my cursory search of that file. I will
> search for it myself, and work on (believe it or not) org-help.org,
> that I use as a helpmate.
>
> I have org-capture assigned to C-c, so C-u C-u C-c c goes straight
> to the last stored item. Perfect.
>
> |
> | (org-capture &optional GOTO KEYS)
> |
> I THINK I understand that GOTO here refers to the prefix C-u ? And
> C-u C-u circumvents this?
>
> | When called interactively with a C-u prefix argument GOTO, don't
> capture
> | anything, just go to the file/headline where the selected template
> | stores its notes. With a double prefix argument C-u C-u, go to
> the last note
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> | stored.
> ^^^^^^
>
> This is it! What I was looking for.
>
> I think, thought it may seem crazy, I would like to still have a way
> to specify in the template that one would remain with the newly
> captured item in its environment, after finalizing. Just the same,
> thinking about that it's an indirect buffer, it makes more sense how
> it works now...
You can just widen during capture if you wish: C-x n w will show you
the entire buffer.
You still need to finalize at some point with C-c C-c though.
>
> Awe, heck, these two methods solve my problem well enough...
>
> |
> | When called with a `C-0' (zero) prefix, insert a template at point.
> |
>
> This is a great feature...
>
> | Lisp programs can set KEYS to a string associated with a template in
> | `org-capture-templates'. In this case, interactive selection will
> be
> | bypassed.
> `----
>
> This is something I'd like to see an example of.
(defun my-capture-k ()
(interactive)
(org-capture nil "k"))
will directly get you into capture template k.
- Carsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-06 8:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-05 6:28 Questions about org-capture templates and usage Alan
2010-12-05 11:58 ` Matt Lundin
2010-12-06 3:59 ` Bernt Hansen
2010-12-06 5:02 ` Alan E. Davis
2010-12-06 8:20 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2010-12-06 14:27 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-12-06 8:33 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-12-06 14:10 ` Bernt Hansen
2010-12-06 14:48 ` Nick Dokos
2010-12-06 16:48 ` Nathan Neff
2010-12-06 17:53 ` Carsten Dominik
[not found] ` <9588.1291658230@gamaville.americas.hpqcorp.net>
2010-12-06 18:08 ` Carsten Dominik
2010-12-07 3:14 ` Štěpán Němec
2010-12-07 19:33 ` Nick Dokos
2010-12-06 21:35 ` Alan Davis
[not found] ` <lngndvs@gmail.com>
2010-08-30 3:31 ` LaTeX export: Skip headline lines? "Paragraph" sectioning? Alan E. Davis
2010-08-30 4:06 ` Nick Dokos
2010-08-30 5:14 ` Scot Becker
2010-08-30 5:46 ` Nick Dokos
2010-08-30 6:54 ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-08-30 14:22 ` Scot Becker
2010-08-30 16:20 ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-08-30 22:05 ` Scot Becker
2010-08-31 0:04 ` Alan E. Davis
2010-08-30 16:40 ` Alan E. Davis
2010-08-30 17:04 ` Nick Dokos
2010-08-31 1:09 ` Alan E. Davis
2010-08-31 1:43 ` Alan E. Davis
2010-08-31 1:59 ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-08-31 2:01 ` Nick Dokos
2012-03-15 17:24 ` Mail composed using emacs --- saving a copy in an org file Alan E. Davis
2012-03-15 17:34 ` Jos'h Fuller
2012-03-15 17:48 ` Peter Salazar
2012-03-15 17:55 ` brian powell
2012-03-15 18:05 ` brian powell
2012-03-15 19:19 ` Nick Dokos
2012-03-15 19:48 ` brian powell
2012-03-16 9:32 ` Karl Voit
2012-03-16 13:46 ` brian powell
2012-03-16 16:07 ` Memacs and Gnowsis (was: Mail composed using emacs --- saving a copy in an org file.) Karl Voit
2010-12-05 21:44 ` Questions about org-capture templates and usage Charles Cave
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