Re: Proposal: 'executable' org-capture-templaes

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>]

Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com> writes:

> The command will then make a temporary buffer listing all entries
> that can be selected with a single key, and all the single key
> prefixes.  When you press the key for a single-letter entry, it is selected.
> When you press a prefix key, the commands (and maybe further prefixes)
> under this key will be shown and offered for selection.

Is there a way to select an entry without exiting the menu?
What I have in mind is C-c C-e interface where we have on/off switches
to control other sub-menus. See, Body-only, Export scope, etc

Also, note the fontification. I guess it will also be possible in your
menu generator if we provide propertized strings.

Selecting a group may also echo the description to minibuffer (as Tim
Cross suggested).

Finally, you are only allowing a single key selectors. What about C-key
or M-key?

> I have paramterized decorator character for shortcut keys as they appear in the
> buffer, org-capture uses "[]", as well as menu separator, which is currently
> hard-coded in org-capture

More generally, it can be a function to create the decorator.

> , and I am currently trying to implement horizontal
> layout, where menus are stacked from left to right.

Please refer to org-fast-tag-selection and org-fast-todo-selection.

> I also have a not so nice
> bug when drawing nested menu that it leaves undesired space where menus not
> visible after descension into current are; I have to redraw the entire menu but
> haven't yet implemented it so I don't want to post a demo yet. But before I fix
> redrawing and implement horizontal layout, I would like to switch to the
> different model of interaction and use ordinary mode map idioms instead of
> blocking read key. Since I need to rework current prototype for the re-drawing
> part, I can as well rework it to skip read-key at the same time.

Since no details are given, I cannot provide any help here. So, good
luck :)

Best,
Ihor