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From: Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: sexp in org remember templates
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:04:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <hc59t5$r1a$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 10440.1256596261@gamaville.dokosmarshall.org

Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:

> Richard Riley <rileyrgdev@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 
>> Not being much of an elisp programmer and just returning to try and
>> integrate with org-learn a little :-
>> 
>> This 
>> 
>> 	      ("vocab"?v "* Learn TODO %(format '%s' rgr/orig-word)
>> 	      :VOCAB:\n:PROPERTIES:\n:orig:\t%(format '%s'
>> 	      rgr/orig-word)\n:trans:\t%(format '%s'
>> 	      rgr/trans-word)\n:END:%!" nil bottom nil)
>> 
>> fails me by outputting:
>> 
>
> At the very least, you need to avoid single quotes for quoting strings -
> a single quote has a very special meaning to lisp in general: it inhibits
> evaluation of the following sexp.
>
> Try something like this instead:
>
> ("vocab"?v "* Learn TODO %(format \"%s\" rgr/orig-word)
>  	      :VOCAB:\n:PROPERTIES:\n:orig:\t%(format \"%s\"
>  	      rgr/orig-word)\n:trans:\t%(format \"%s\"
>  	      rgr/trans-word)\n:END:%!" nil bottom nil)
>
> However, no guarantees: when (or even whether) the format calls will be executed
> (let alone whether they'll produce the correct result) depends on the
> code that handles this construct. There have been a couple of questions
> on the mailing list about such evaluations in the context of
> org-remember-templates, and IIRC, Carsten had added an evaluation
> mechanism there - see e.g. the thread at
>
>    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/14521
>
> and another thread referenced therein for some details. But I don't know
> if this will do what you need it to do.
>
> HTH,
> Nick

Thanks for the info. In the meantime I had just created two functions
with no parameters to return the values and this worked. 

Trying now to auto remember. I have some code like this:-

,----
| (defun rgr/context-babel()
|   (interactive)
|   (save-window-excursion(unwind-protect
| 			    (let* ((default (region-or-word-at-point)))
| 			      (setq default (read-string (format "Translate \"%s\" :" default) nil nil default))
| 			      (when (length default) (setq
|   rgr/trans-word (babel default nil t))(setq rgr/orig-word
|   default)(org-remember nil ?v)(message "%s" rgr/trans-word))))))
`----

Thanks. I had already create two funcs to call so my template is now:-

,----
| 	      ("vocab"?v "* TODO Learn %(rgr/orig-word)
| 	      :VOCAB:\n:PROPERTIES:\n:orig:\t%(rgr/orig-word)\n:trans:\t%(rgr/trans-word)\n:END:%!"
| 	      nil bottom nil)
`----

and the translate code I call does this:

,----
| ;;;###autoload
| (defun rgr/context-babel()
|   (interactive)
|   (save-window-excursion(unwind-protect
| 			    (let* ((default (region-or-word-at-point)))
| 			      (setq default (read-string (format "Translate \"%s\" :" default) nil nil default))
| 			      (when (length default) (setq rgr/trans-word (babel default nil t))(setq rgr/orig-word default)(org-remember nil ?v)(message "%s" rgr/trans-word))))))
`----

and now I have my translate hot key auto creating VOCAB TODOs. The only
thing I need to know now is how to auto schedule them.

     prev parent reply	other threads:[~2009-10-26 23:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-26 22:06 sexp in org remember templates Richard Riley
2009-10-26 22:25 ` Richard Riley
2009-10-26 22:31 ` Nick Dokos
2009-10-26 23:04   ` Richard Riley [this message]

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