Oh ok, thanks! And I thought to myself, I should check if by any chance this is not yet released, as that might be the reason it is not in the docs, but then I tried it on my machine and it worked, so I assumed it is released. But I completely forgot I use elpaca which is pulling in the latest dev version of org it seems ... . Sorry for the false alarm then, and thanks!
Best, On Fri, Dec 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM Ihor Radchenko <[email protected]> wrote: > Martin Šošić <[email protected]> writes: > > > I learned today, from https://emacs.stackexchange.com/a/81710, that > `%\*N` > > has been added to capture template expansion, to support `%^{prompt}X` > > entries, and not just `%^{prompt}` ones. > > This is awesome and I was super happy to learn about it as it was exactly > > what I needed, but it was not mentioned in the docs at > > https://orgmode.org/manual/Template-expansion.html , even though it is > > released since org 9.8. > > > > Anyway I can contribute this to the docs, or maybe somebody else would > like > > to take it on and add it? > > Org 9.8 is not yet released. > orgmode.org website is showing the manual for the released Org 9.7 > version, which is why it is not yet describing the new template element. > If you look at the manual source in git repository, you will see that we > do have \*N description: > > https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/tree/doc/org-manual.org#n8436 > > So, thanks for offering the fix, but there is nothing to fix in this > particular case :) > > > I am sorry to be sending this email without subscribing to the mailing > > list, but I don't have the capacity at the moment to be subscribed, even > > though I hope I will in the future. > > You do not need to be subscribed to post here. It is just that the > emails will come with a delay (human moderation) for non-subscribers the > first time. > > I updated https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contribute.html > to highlight that the subscription is not mandatory. > https://git.sr.ht/~bzg/worg/commit/dced2de4 > > -- > Ihor Radchenko // yantar92, > Org mode maintainer, > Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>. > Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>, > or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92> >
