Viewing the default capture template

Viewing the default capture template

[Christopher Howard]

Hi, I want to make a an org capture template that is a little different from the default one used when in an EWW buffer. Can I see what that default template is through some interactive command, or do I have to search through EWW source code to find it?

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Re: Viewing the default capture template

[Michael Heerdegen via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor]

Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com> writes:

> Hi, I want to make a an org capture template that is a little
> different from the default one used when in an EWW buffer. Can I see
> what that default template is through some interactive command, or do
> I have to search through EWW source code to find it?

Does eww have an associated separate org capture template?  I don't see
anything like that defined in eww.el...

We have ol-eww.el which makes "`org-store-link' (often on key C-c l) in
an EWW buffer store a link to the current url of the eww buffer." - but
I guess you don't mean that.


Michael.

Re: Viewing the default capture template

[Christopher Howard]

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

> Does eww have an associated separate org capture template?  I don't see
> anything like that defined in eww.el...

I think this is basically the question I'm asking. If I don't pass a template in for the org-capture-templates list entry, whatever is used by default somehow works in EWW buffers, generating a proper org link with title. I want to see what that template is, so I can make something similar.

>
> We have ol-eww.el which makes "`org-store-link' (often on key C-c l) in
> an EWW buffer store a link to the current url of the eww buffer." - but
> I guess you don't mean that.

Perhaps the capture system calls org-store-link at some point. Not sure.

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Re: Viewing the default capture template

[Christopher Howard]

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'.
```

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Christopher Howard

Re: Viewing the default capture template

[Michael Heerdegen via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor]

Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com> writes:

> > Does eww have an associated separate org capture template?  I don't see
> > anything like that defined in eww.el...
>
> I think this is basically the question I'm asking. If I don't pass a
> template in for the org-capture-templates list entry, whatever is used
> by default somehow works in EWW buffers, generating a proper org link
> with title. I want to see what that template is, so I can make
> something similar.

Did you bind or customize `org-capture-templates'?  The default is nil.
With the default of nil `org-capture' offers only one template as far as
I understand, which is hardcoded in `org-capture-select-template' - this
one:

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
("t" "Task" entry (file+headline "" "Tasks")
		"* TODO %?\n  %u\n  %a")
#+end_src

Is this the template you are using?


Michael.

Re: Viewing the default capture template

[Michael Heerdegen via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor]

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.