Hi Everyone,
*TL;DR:* I've recently started using org-capture and I'd like to run
org-attach-attach during the expansion of a few of my templates. Doing so
from a template function seems not to work (meaning a function in a
template string called with %(…)). What's the best way to go about this?
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I've recently started to explore org-capture and it's pretty great. I'm
interested in having one of my templates search for a file somewhere and,
if it finds one, add it to the current template as an attachment.
My initial test template looks something like:
(defun attach-file
()
(org-attach-attach (expand-file-name "a file")
nil
'cp))
(setq org-capture-templates
'("T" "TEST" entry
(file+headline "~/x.org" "Inbox")
"* TODO Foo%(attach-file)
%U"))
The idea being that attach-file would call org-attach-attach if it could
find a file and always expand to nothing.
Upon testing that I see the following (org 9.4.5-g287af2, emacs 27.2 (build
1, x86_64-apple-darwin18.7.0)):
** TODO Foo%![Error: (error bug: org-id-get expects a file-visiting buffer)]
:PROPERTIES:
:ID: 05837793-5A4F-42FC-AB50-5165FA7ECC4B
:END:
[2021-04-29 Thu 09:52]
If I then call org-attach manually on the resulting entry I can attach a
file fine to it.
I'm aware that I can make the template an elisp function and do the work
all internally. That's probably what I'll start doing presently. But it's a
little annoying that I then need to reimplement org-capture's built-in
template expansion in some way (like %U for the current inactive timestamp).
I also believe I could do this with one of the org-capture hooks but
examining them I didn't see the obvious right one to add my function to. I
would think it would be the org-capture-prepare-finalize-hook and I may
just give that a try. I further assume then that I'd need to to apply the
advice here
<https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/9n3vxn/in_org_mode_how_can_i_make_a_postcapture_hook_run/>
and
check for what template I'm in with (plist-get org-capture-plist :key) or
similar.
So my question is whether there's anything I can do to get org-attach-attach to
recognize the file it's in. I'm assuming that when it's expanding it's in a
temporary buffer of some kind which is why it's failing.
All thoughts and advice are most welcome. Thanks in advance! :)
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