Re: [O] How to programmatically use/edit data provided on capture

2014-08-03 Thread Richard Lawrence 
Hi Marcin,

Marcin Antczak marcin.antc...@neutrico-themes.pl writes:

 I got capture template with prompts to collect some properties:

 #+BEGIN_SRC
 * TODO %\1 / Some task description
:PROPERTIES:
:NAME: %^{NAME}
:END:
 #+END_SRC

 My question is: How to get information on user input data to transform
 this data before capture finalize.

I too have wanted to do something like this, but I am not sure that it
is possible without hacking org-capture, because I don't think you can
hook into the template processing at an arbitrary point.

Is it really important that you transform the data *before* capture
finalize?  If not, I think you could do this *during* capture finalize
by replacing, say, a pre-determined string PUT-NAME-HERE with the value of 

(custom-dashify-function (org-entry-get (point) NAME))

You could do that from org-capture-prepare-finalize-hook, maybe.  Would
that work for you?  It has some limitations:
  - it's only easy to recover data that was entered as properties or tags, not
arbitrary strings
  - you can't continue to edit the capture buffer after doing this
processing, since the hook will only be called after you start
finalization 
 
If you come up with a better solution, I'd like to hear about it!  I
have scratched my head about this several times before, but I've never
come up with a satisfactory solution.

Good luck!

Best,
Richard

[O] How to programmatically use/edit data provided on capture

2014-08-02 Thread Marcin Antczak 

Hi all!

I got capture template with prompts to collect some properties:

#+BEGIN_SRC
* TODO %\1 / Some task description
   :PROPERTIES:
   :NAME: %^{NAME}
   :END:
#+END_SRC

My question is: How to get information on user input data to transform 
this data before capture finalize.


For example: I got variable NAME and would like to use function like 
(s-dashed-words string) from s.el to make sure that my NAME is valid and 
converted to dashed syntax.


Let's say that my input is: New random project

I would like to have:

#+begin_src
* TODO new-random-project / Some task description
   :PROPERTIES:
   :NAME: New random project
   :END:
#+end_src

While currently I got:

#+begin_src
* TODO New random project / Some task description
   :PROPERTIES:
   :NAME: New random project
   :END:
#+end_src

I have been trying:

#+BEGIN_SRC
* TODO %(custom-dashify-function %\1) / Some task description
   :PROPERTIES:
   :NAME: %^{NAME}
   :END:
#+END_SRC

or

#+BEGIN_SRC
* TODO %(custom-dashify-function %\\1) / Some task description
   :PROPERTIES:
   :NAME: %^{NAME}
   :END:
#+END_SRC

But apparently function is executed before %\1 is replaced by my data 
and it dodesn't work.
Could someone help me to write function that would get data I provided 
for property NAME, convert using s-dashed-words and return to template 
before finalize?



Marcin