From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?Q?S=C3=A9bastien_Vauban?= Subject: Re: org-capture question/suggestion Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 09:31:49 +0200 Message-ID: <87vd9ajjbu.fsf@mundaneum.com> References: <877hlqetr8.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org To: emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Hi Tassilo, Tassilo Horn wrote: > as already said, I really like the new org-capture interface. But there's > one thing concerning the templates, which might be optimized a bit. > > I want to add certain information accessible with template escapes as > properties. So as an example, I have a template like this: > > ("t" "TODO" entry > (file "/home/horn/repos/org/remember.org") > "* TODO %?\n :PROPERTIES:\n :created: %U\n :link: %a\n :END:\n %i") > > The creation date %U is always there, so that's no problem. But the link > accessible with %a may be nil. Then, I really don't want to have a :link: > property. Currently, I simply delete that line before filing the item. > That's a bit inconvenient, The same applies (or, applied) for me with Bernt's config for clocking automatically when editing a task/note/etc. via the (old) remember interfac= e: when it lasted for less than one minute, the `CLOCK' line disappeared (than= ks to `org-clock-out-remove-zero-time-clocks'), but `:LOGBOOK:' and `:END:' stayed: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- * Task added via remember :LOGBOOK: :END: --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > and that I have to deal with indentation in the template is another > inconvenience. Regarding indentation, it is the same when a region is preselected: the fir= st line of the region is correctly indented; others, not. What would be nice is that every line of the region would be prefixed by the same amount of space= s. > And it won't work when my capture template doesn't create a new entry, but > appends to an existing one. In that case, properties should be appended to > existing properties, too. Just for me to understand, what would you expect when you say that properti= es should be appended? - multiple creation dates? - multiple links? Maybe, even, you would want different behaviors for the different propertie= s? - creation dates not "append-able": the first one is kept? - links appended in sequence? > So what I would love to see was a possibility to have property escapes, > which use the property API and only add properties that have a value. Then > the property API would handle the correct indentation and everything else. > > Maybe, a good syntax would be %:propname:X, where X is one of the normal > escapes without the leading %. Then I could write the template above like > that: > > ("t" "TODO" entry > (file "/home/horn/repos/org/remember.org") > "* TODO %?\n %i %:created:U %:link:a") > > Well, I don't really care about the syntax. Maybe it's better to specify > properties outside the template, because they won't be inserted at the ex= act > position defined in the template anyway, especially if type is not 'entry. > So how about something like that: > > ("t" "TODO" entry > (file "/home/horn/repos/org/remember.org") > "* TODO %?\n %i" > :properties (("created" "%U") > ("link" "%a"))) > > What do you think? Interesting.. Best regards, Seb --=20 S=C3=A9bastien Vauban _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode