Re: using links/org-capture programmatically

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

On Tue, Jul 26 2011, Christian Moe wrote:

> On 7/26/11 8:20 PM, Eric Abrahamsen wrote:
>> I've got a little sequence I use so often I'd like to automate it, but
>> am not sure how. Basically it goes:
>>
>> 1. In Gnus, store a link to an email message
>> 2. Call org-capture
>> 3. Choose a template with a REPLY keyword, that gets stored in a certain subtree
>> 4. Pull the last-stored link, to the email message, into the REPLY heading
>> 5. Complete and restore what I had before
>>
>> If I want to write a single keystroke that does this, how do I insert
>> the last stored link into the text of the capture template in an elisp
>> function? Or should I not be using org-capture in a function to begin
>> with?
>
> Can't you just call org-capture from the message and have a link added
> automatically with %a in the template? See
> [[info:org#Template%20expansion]]. (Caveat: Not tested, I'm not on
> Gnus.)

Oh, ha! Don't know how I missed that, but you're quite right. It's still
several keypresses, but not so many that it breaks the zone. If I need
something more complex, I'll try Seb's solution.

Thanks to you both!

Eric