From: "Sébastien Vauban" <wxhgmqzgwmuf-geNee64TY+gS+FvcfC7Uqw@public.gmane.org>
To: emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: question about capture templates
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2011 23:14:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <80bp255935.fsf@missioncriticalit.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87k4gtpcvp.fsf@berkeley.edu
Hi Richard,
Richard Lawrence wrote:
> Sébastien Vauban <wxhgmqzgwmuf-geNee64TY+gS+FvcfC7Uqw@public.gmane.org> writes:
>> "Filippo A. Salustri" wrote:
>>> I would really like to be able to vary the file into which a captured item
>>> goes. Specifically, I'd like to insert the item into whatever file I was
>>> visiting when I started the capture.
>
>> You have to use backquotes so that expressions are considered as code to
>> execute, instead of data. See Emacs manual.
>
> I'm not sure that backquotes will do what the OP wants. Backquotes will
> allow the OP to compute the value of a target file at the time the (setq
> org-capture templates ...) form is evaluated. The OP needs a way to
> determine the target file at the time of capture (right?), not at the time
> the variable is set.
You're definitely right. I missed the distinction "at Org launch time" vs "at
execution time"... Pull my answer off the records ;-)
Best regards,
Seb
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Sébastien Vauban
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-21 22:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-21 15:08 question about capture templates Filippo A. Salustri
2011-02-21 15:29 ` Sébastien Vauban
2011-02-21 16:32 ` Richard Lawrence
2011-02-21 22:14 ` Sébastien Vauban [this message]
2011-02-22 0:39 ` Filippo A. Salustri
2011-02-22 4:59 ` Richard Lawrence
2011-02-22 9:19 ` Carsten Dominik
2011-02-22 16:06 ` Richard Lawrence
2011-02-22 7:43 ` Nick Dokos
2011-02-22 9:15 ` Carsten Dominik
2011-02-22 11:37 ` Bastien
2011-02-23 14:49 ` Filippo A. Salustri
2011-02-23 17:28 ` Filippo A. Salustri
2011-02-21 15:32 ` Matthew Sauer
2011-02-21 16:01 ` Matthew Sauer
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