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From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
To: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>,
	No Wayman <iarchivedmywholelife@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-capture: question about function to create template
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2021 10:36:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87o8fj8lze.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875z1rvniu.fsf@localhost>

Hi Ihor & No Wayman,

Thanks for your replies.

On Tue, Mar 16 2021, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
> Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm> writes:
>
>> ... I was wondering if there's any
>> way for this function to access the state of the ongoing capture process.
>> Specifically, it would be useful for me if the function can find out the key of
>> the template that the user selected.
>
> See org-capture-plist.

Yes, I thought that might be it, but I wasn't sure.

On Mon, Mar 15 2021, No Wayman wrote:
>> From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
>> Specifically, it would be useful for me if the function can find out the key
>> of the template that the user selected.
>
> This is stored on the above plist as :key.
>
> There are some corner cases to consider if you have overlapping 
> capture processes.
> You'll want to look into `org-capture-get' and 
> `org-capture-current-plist' as well.

Thanks for the pointers. I'll dive in a little and see what's best for my use
case.



-- 
Joost Kremers
Life has its moments


  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-16  9:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-15 15:42 org-capture: question about function to create template Joost Kremers
2021-03-16  2:30 ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-03-16  9:36   ` Joost Kremers [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.51.1615824031.880.emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
2021-03-15 16:57 ` No Wayman

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