Currently, capture templates provide no way of prompting for some text,
then inserting that text into multiple places in the template.
This patch allow you to do this, by adding %<n> escapes to the template
syntax (where <n> is a digit, 0 to 9), which expand to the text entered
for the nth prompt in the template (as specified in the template using
the usual %^{prompt} syntax).
Useful for populating a subtree with an entire sequence of related TODOs,
capturing a multi-step task.
Toby
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Dr T. S. Cubitt
Mathematics and Quantum Information group
Department of Mathematics
Complutense University
Madrid, Spain
email: [email protected]
web: www.dr-qubit.org
>From 0e917539324fdc32cd0878b0819cb28b79f30f01 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Toby S. Cubitt" <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:04:05 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Capture: Add %<num> escapes to org capture templates
* lisp/org-capture.el (org-capture-fill-template): Expand %<num>
escape sequences into text entered for <num>'th %^{PROMPT} escape.
---
lisp/org-capture.el | 24 ++++++++++++++++++------
1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lisp/org-capture.el b/lisp/org-capture.el
index f0afc70..2daca72 100644
--- a/lisp/org-capture.el
+++ b/lisp/org-capture.el
@@ -248,6 +248,8 @@ be replaced with content and expanded in this order:
A default value and a completion table ca be specified like this:
%^{prompt|default|completion2|completion3|...}.
%? After completing the template, position cursor here.
+ %<n> Insert the text entered for at the nth %^{prompt}, where <n>
+ represents a digit, 0 to 9.
Apart from these general escapes, you can access information specific to the
link type that is created. For example, calling `org-capture' in emails
@@ -1326,7 +1328,7 @@ The template may still contain \"%?\" for cursor positioning."
(org-startup-folded nil)
(org-inhibit-startup t)
org-time-was-given org-end-time-was-given x
- prompt completions char time pos default histvar)
+ prompt completions char time pos default histvar strings)
(setq org-store-link-plist
(plist-put org-store-link-plist :annotation v-a)
@@ -1468,11 +1470,21 @@ The template may still contain \"%?\" for cursor positioning."
nil nil (list org-end-time-was-given)))
(t
(let (org-completion-use-ido)
- (insert (org-completing-read-no-i
- (concat (if prompt prompt "Enter string")
- (if default (concat " [" default "]"))
- ": ")
- completions nil nil nil histvar default)))))))
+ (push (org-completing-read-no-i
+ (concat (if prompt prompt "Enter string")
+ (if default (concat " [" default "]"))
+ ": ")
+ completions nil nil nil histvar default)
+ strings)
+ (insert (car strings)))))))
+ ;; Replace %n escapes with nth %^{...} string
+ (setq strings (nreverse strings))
+ (goto-char (point-min))
+ (while (re-search-forward "%\\([1-9]\\)+" nil t)
+ (unless (org-capture-escaped-%)
+ (replace-match
+ (nth (1- (string-to-number (match-string 1))) strings)
+ nil t)))
;; Make sure there are no empty lines before the text, and that
;; it ends with a newline character
(goto-char (point-min))
--
1.7.8.5
