Re: org-capture-templates file+datetree+prompt question

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

Hi Erik,

if yout get the latest git version, this is how it is working now.
I agree that it is more consistent this way.

- Carsten

On 6.12.2011, at 09:23, Erik Hetzner wrote:

> At Tue, 6 Dec 2011 08:43:34 +0100,
> Carsten Dominik wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On 6.12.2011, at 07:04, Erik Hetzner wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> I would like to use a capture template to capture calendar entries &
>>> file them to a date tree organized calendar.org file.
>> 
>> […]
>> 
>> I tried to reproduce this.  When I do this and enter the date two
>> days into the future (8 December), I get
>> 
>> * 2011
>> ** 2011-12 Dezember
>> *** 2011-12-08 Donnerstag
>> **** Test
>>     <2011-12-06 Di>
>> 
>> So the headline uses in fact the date that was entered at the prompt,
>> only the %t is replaced by the current date.  I would think this
>> all works as expected.  Maybe I am missing something?
>> 
>> I see that when I do "k c" from the agenda, then indeed also the %t
>> is replaced with the cursor date.  So indeed, this is a bit
>> inconsistent.  What would be the right behavior?
> 
> Hi Carsten,
> 
> Maybe it does work as expected (although it should probably be
> consistent, as you say). What I am looking for is some way to get the
> date I was prompted for to use in the timestamp, so I get:
> 
> * 2011
> ** 2011-12 December
> *** 2011-12-08 Thursday
> **** Test
>     <2011-12-08 Thursday>
> 
> the idea being that I am entering a scheduled event.
> 
> I can’t figure a template replacement string (%-something) to make
> this work.
> 
> Thanks for your help!
> 
> best, Erik
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