Re: Org Capture Menu cannot be fully viewed

[pietru@caramail.com]

> Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2020 at 11:00 PM
> From: "TRS-80" <lists.trs-80@isnotmyreal.name>
> To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Org Capture Menu cannot be fully viewed
>
> On 2020-12-13 16:02, pietru@caramail.com wrote:
> >
> > Would that apply with respect to inserting long headings or
> > descriptions in org file?
>
> Yes.  If you have not used completing-read, just play around with it a
> bit and you will very quickly see how it works.  It takes a list (Elisp
> data type) as input, on which you can do narrowing selection as you
> type.
>
> Ivy was one of recommendations which I can second, I prefer it's more
> intuitive (to me) interaction style and support for native
> completing-read format.  But there are (many) others, too.
>
> > Example:
> >
> > ;;                "Site_SubType:
> > ;;                   [1a] Settlement > Encampment
> > ;;                   [1a] Settlement > Hamlet or Village
> > ;;                   [1a] Settlement > Town or City
> > [...]
>
> However to make it even simpler to use / maintain your candidate lists,
> I would just put them in a simple plain text file, aligned to left
> margin.  Example:
>
> File name: Site_SubType
>
> [1a] Settlement > Encampment
> [1a] Settlement > Hamlet or Village
> [1a] Settlement > Town or City

That would be my way to attack it, by storing any pre-defined things
with a field and a value in a record master file.

> Then you need a function to read from plain text file with your "list"
> of candidates, and turn that into an (Elisp data type) list:
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>
> (defun my-file-to-list (file)
>      "Read FILE and return it as a list of strings.
>
>    List items will be split upon newlines."
>      (with-temp-buffer
>        (insert-file-contents file)
>        (split-string (buffer-string) "\n" t)))
>
> #+end_src
>
> You then use the above function (with filename argument) for your
> candidate list in completing-read.  Modifying Jean Louis' earlier
> example, it now becomes:
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>
>    (completing-read "Choose: "
> 		   (my-file-to-list "/path/to/Site_SubType"))
>
> #+end_src
>
> You can even use this to fill in Org Properties.  Or you can use Org
> Properties similar native completion, although by default that only uses
> whatever values already exist in the buffer (which therefore could be
> "none"), instead of your specified controlled vocabulary file as I used
> above.  I (by far) prefer the controlled vocabulary method, for lots of
> reasons.
>
> Cheers,
> TRS-80
>
>