Re: using %(sexp) in remember templates

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>]

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