From: Shelagh Manton <shelagh.manton@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: using %(sexp) in remember templates
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:16:11 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <h14leq$7dp$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 29830.1245042117@gamaville
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:01:57 -0400, Nick Dokos wrote:
> Shelagh Manton <shelagh.manton@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to make a remember template that inserts some text
>> automatically.
>>
>> I read in the manual that %(sexp) would expand in the template. This
>> would be what I want, if I've understood the manual aright.
>>
>> I made a small function that inserts text (org-csa) and this is the
>> template I originally tried.
>> ("CSA" ?C "* TODO %^{topic} %^g\n %t\n %(org-csa) %&" "CSA.org" bottom)
>>
> The function should not insert anything into any buffer: it should
> *return* what you want to be inserted. For example, the following
> minimal .emacs works just fine (after fixing the path appropriately):
>
> ,----
> | (add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "/path/to/org-mode/lisp")) |
> (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.\\(org\\|org_archive\\|txt\\)$" .
> org-mode)) | (require 'org-install)
> | (global-set-key "\C-cl" 'org-store-link) | (global-set-key "\C-ca"
> 'org-agenda) |
> | ;;;;
> | (setq org-remember-templates '(("CSA" ?C "* TODO %^{topic} %^g\n %t\n
> %(org-csa) %&" "CSA.org" bottom))) | (defun org-csa ()
> | "foobar")
> | (org-remember-insinuate)
> |
> | ;;;;;
> `----
>
> HTH,
> Nick
>
>
So my problem is that my function org-csa is inserting text? I will try
this out.
Ah thanks that works nicely. A conceptual dissonance between returning
values and inserting text.
Shelagh
>
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2009-06-14 23:27 using %(sexp) in remember templates Shelagh Manton
2009-06-15 5:01 ` Nick Dokos
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