From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: Bill Wishon <bill@wishon.org>
Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: create new files from capture
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 15:44:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4864.1303328663@alphaville.americas.hpqcorp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Bill Wishon <bill@wishon.org> of "Wed, 20 Apr 2011 19:22:39 -0000." <loom.20110420T211322-58@post.gmane.org>
Bill Wishon <bill@wishon.org> wrote:
> Bill Wishon <bill <at> wishon.org> writes:
>
> > What I'm trying to figure out now is how to read the template from a file.
> > The documentation says that it can be done by using (file "path/to/file")
> > in place of the template text argument, but I haven't gotten that working yet.
>
> Nevermind, my elisp skills are rusty (file "path/to/template.org") works fine,
> what I was trying to do required lisp code evaluation in that context and
> therefore didn't work eg: (file (concat org-directory "/template.org")) to do
> that I'd have to use (function function-returning-the-template), but it's not
> really worth it for what I was trying to do.
>
Alternatively, you can use the backquote mechanism - see e.g.
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/17612/focus=17620
Nick
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-20 19:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-01 17:43 create new files from capture Buck Brody
2011-04-04 19:12 ` David Maus
2011-04-04 19:49 ` Matthew Sauer
2011-04-20 19:00 ` Bill Wishon
2011-04-20 19:22 ` Bill Wishon
2011-04-20 19:44 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
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