Re: Using org-remember to include stored link?

[Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>]

On Oct 14, 2007, at 14:05, Georg C. F. Greve wrote:

> On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 08:14:10 +0200
> Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl> wrote:
>
>>> is it possible to call org-remember to insert a previously stored
>>> link?
>
>  cd> The remember buffer is in org-mode, you can just call C-c C-l to
>  cd> insert any previously stored link...
>
> True. Although that means I would need to delete the link that is
> inserted by the template, and then insert the one I want. I'd prefer
> this to happen with fewer keystrokes. If I could call org-mode with a
> customized template to insert the stored link without being prompted 
> for
> the other templates, that would be great.
>
> Ideally for what I have in mind the templates would not be defined per
> file. That dependency really is not useful in my case.

You can use nil for the file name and still provide a headline,
I believe.  I see now that the customization interface does not
allow this - I will change this.
>
> In combination with something that inserts the last stored link into 
> the
> template automatically, I could then have the fastest way of turning
> outgoing mail into WAITING items in the correct file.
>
> See http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/org-mairix.el function
>
>  org-mairix-message-send-and-exit-with-link

For this specific application, you might consider a different route:

- Define a prefix argument for this function.  When given, org-remember
will be called directly by the function, with a custom template into 
which
you can insert the link.  If you use `let' to define a local value
for org-remember-templates, that template will be used for this call.

So I mean that you end your org-mairix-send-and-exit-with-link
with something like this (totally untested, only a draft):

(when arg

   (let ((org-remember-templates
           '((?w (concat "* WAITING %?\n  " (format "[[%s][%s]]" link 
desc))
                 nil ; no file name
                 "WAITING" ; the headline
                 ))))
        (org-remember)))

Since we are only defining a single template, you will not even be 
prompted
for the template but directly placed into the remember buffer.


- Carsten