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From: Stig Brautaset <stig@brautaset.org>
Subject: Re: is it possible to reuse a capture template expansion?
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2016 21:12:14 +0100
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Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:

> Hello,
>
> Stig Brautaset <stig@brautaset.org> writes:
>
>> I've got a capture template where I want to prompt for a string and use
>> it in two places, but I end up being prompted twice. 

[...]

> You can use %1, %2... to reuse the first string, the second one...

Thanks! I now managed to get it to work, but had to add more
backslashes: %\1, %\2 etc, not %1, %2. BTW, the manual[1] actually says
%\\n, so adds _too many_ backslashes :-)

[1] http://orgmode.org/manual/Template-expansion.html#Template-expansion 


Stig

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