Re: org-capture in the same file from which it was called under certain heading

[Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com>]

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On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Memnon Anon <
gegendosenfleisch@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I would like to capture todo items, changes and other things in the
> > file I am working in (literate programming), but I am struggling: how
> > can I specify thet the file is the actual file I am working in?
>
> Thats fun!
> From the info manual on capture templates
> to google "org capture "entry (function"" which led
> to the mailing list archive (Thread start: http://tinyurl.com/3fj25gq)
> to the git log:
>
> ,----
> | commit 030960559e24b5b364b6237d223429b5050fc2f1
> | Author: Bastien Guerry <bzg@altern.org>
> | Date:   Sun Mar 6 17:31:56 2011 +0100
> |
> |     org-capture.el: remove (currentfile) as a file specification in
> templates.
> |
> |     You can already use a function like (buffer-file-name) to get the
> currently
> |     visited file.  So (currentfile) is not necessary.
> `----
>
> What a round trip :).
>
> A quick test suggests this should do:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> ("w"
>  "*TEST*: entry function currentfile"
>  entry
>  (file+headline (buffer-file-name) "Notes")
>  "* Eintrag")
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
>
> This should file your capture item "* Eintrag" under the Node "* Notes"
> in the buffer you called capture from.
>
> Is that what you had in mind?
>

Yes - exactly that.
Now if this could go into the documentation of org-capture, that would be
great.

Thanks a lot,

Rainer

>
> hth
> Memnon
>
> Tested with:
> ,----
> | (setq org-capture-templates
> |       `(("w"
> |        "*TEST*: entry function currentfile"
> |        entry
> |        (file+headline (buffer-file-name) "Note")
> |        "* Eintrag")))
> `----
> on GNU Emacs 23.3.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.3)
>   of 2011-04-10 on raven, modified by Debian
> with
>        Org-mode version 7.5
>
>
>
>
>


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