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From: Amos Bird <amosbird@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: use %A to prompt for plain text when there is not file
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 19:17:06 +0800
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Um, but I'd like to use this template for both cases. When inside a temporary, don't generate a
link, but plain text instead, while in a file buffer, generate the link as usual.

regards,

Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:

> Amos Bird <amosbird@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> when in a file backed buffer, doing org capture with %A generates
>>
>>
>> [[some link][some description]]
>>
>> and if the buffer has no file associated with it, I'd like %A to generate
>>
>>
>> some description
>>
>> the above "some description" is inputed via prompting user.
>
> It sounds wrong to link to a temporary buffer, i.e., to volatile
> contents. It may be more appropriate to use
>
>      %^{prompt}
>
> in your template instead of
>
>      %A
>
> when capturing from there.
>
> WDYT?
>
> Regards,


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