From: Christian Moe <mail@christianmoe.com>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: using links/org-capture programmatically
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 21:02:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E2F0F58.3030007@christianmoe.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877h74x5ry.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>
On 7/26/11 8:20 PM, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
> I've got a little sequence I use so often I'd like to automate it, but
> am not sure how. Basically it goes:
>
> 1. In Gnus, store a link to an email message
> 2. Call org-capture
> 3. Choose a template with a REPLY keyword, that gets stored in a certain subtree
> 4. Pull the last-stored link, to the email message, into the REPLY heading
> 5. Complete and restore what I had before
>
> If I want to write a single keystroke that does this, how do I insert
> the last stored link into the text of the capture template in an elisp
> function? Or should I not be using org-capture in a function to begin
> with?
Can't you just call org-capture from the message and have a link added
automatically with %a in the template? See
[[info:org#Template%20expansion]]. (Caveat: Not tested, I'm not on Gnus.)
Yours,
Christian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-26 18:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-26 18:20 using links/org-capture programmatically Eric Abrahamsen
2011-07-26 19:02 ` Christian Moe [this message]
2011-07-27 1:53 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2011-07-26 20:56 ` Sebastien Vauban
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