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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Desmond Rivet <desmond.rivet@videotron.ca>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Percent signs in org-remember-templates
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:04:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <144E5409-B070-40D1-99BF-086869642CB3@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hbvci69h.fsf@zinc.branchcut.ath.cx>


On Sep 9, 2009, at 3:42 PM, Desmond Rivet wrote:

> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Aug 24, 2009, at 3:27 AM, Desmond Rivet wrote:
>
>>> I'm attempting to use the remember package to insert a diary-sexp
>>> into a
>>> file for use by the org-mode agenda.  It looks like this;
>>>
>>> %%(diary-remind '(diary-date  %^{Month} %^{Day} t) -%^{Remind days})
>>> %^{Brief Description}%?
>>>
>>> The double percent at the beginning is causing problems.  Is there  
>>> any
>>> way to escape the percent signs?
>>
>> Hi Desmond,
>>
>> Please pull from git, and then escape like this:
>>
>> %\%(diary-remind '(diary-date  %^{Month} %^{Day} t) -%^{Remind days})
>> %^{Brief Description}%?
>
> Hrm...tried that with the latest version from git, but it still  
> doesn't
> seem to work.  My templates look like this:
>
> (setq org-remember-templates
>    '(
> 	  ("Next Action" ?n "** TODO %^{Brief Description}\nAdded: %U\n%? 
> \n" "~/pim/gtd/main_gtd.org"  "Misc")
> 	  ("Waiting" ?w "** TODO %^{Brief Description}\nAdded: %U\n%?\n" "~/ 
> pim/gtd/main_gtd.org" "Waiting")
> 	  ("Project" ?p "** TODO %^{Brief Description} :project: 
> \n:PROPERTIES:\n:CATEGORY: %^{Category}\n:END:\nAdded: %U\n%?\n"
>           "~/pim/gtd/main_gtd.org" "Projects")
> 	  ("Someday" ?s "** %^{Brief Description}\nAdded: %U\n%?\n" "~/pim/ 
> gtd/someday.org" "Misc")
>
> 	  ;; calendar
> 	  ("Birthday" ?b "%\%(diary-remind '(diary-date  %^{Month}  
> %^{Day}t) -%^{Remind days}) %^{Brief Description}%?"

Hi Desmond,

to get a backslash in a string constant, you need to write two:

      "%\\%(diary...."

HTH

- Carsten


>           "~/pim/gtd/dates.org" "Birthdays")
> 	  ("Appointment" ?a "* %^T %^{Brief Description}%?" "~/pim/gtd/ 
> dates.org" "Appointments")
>     )
> )
>
> The Birthday one is giving me this when I hit C-c r b:
>
> %%![Error: (void-function diary-remind)] %?
>
> Any ideas?
>
> -- 
> Desmond Rivet
>
> Pain is weakness leaving the body.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-10 18:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-21  6:15 Please test org-indent-mode Carsten Dominik
2009-08-22 14:05 ` RC
2009-08-24  0:45 ` Manish
2009-08-24  1:27   ` Percent signs in org-remember-templates Desmond Rivet
2009-08-24  5:17     ` Carsten Dominik
2009-09-09 13:42       ` Desmond Rivet
2009-09-10 18:04         ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2009-08-24  4:49   ` Please test org-indent-mode Carsten Dominik
2009-08-25 19:05     ` Sebastian Rose
2009-08-25  9:37       ` Bastien

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