Re: Viewing the default capture template

[Michael Heerdegen via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com> writes:

> For posterity: the same default template string is used for all
> captures, if you don't specify one. The docstring for
> org-capture-templates indicates it is...
>
> ```
> \"* %?\n %a\"
> ```
>
> The %a refers to the annotation:
>
> ```
>   %a          Annotation, normally the link created with `org-store-link'.
> ```

Oh - you already had found that, good.

If you are even more curious: the code that fills the template is in -
surprise! - `org-capture-fill-template'.  "%a" gets expanded to the
value of this expression:

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(let ((a (or (plist-get org-store-link-plist :annotation)
		       annotation
		       (org-capture-get :annotation)
		       "")))
	    ;; Is the link empty?  Then we do not want it...
	    (if (equal a "[[]]") "" a))
#+end_src

look for a helper var named `v-a' in that defun.


Michael.