Re: Org Capture Template

[Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>]

daniela-spit@gmx.it writes:

> Yes, it seems better to do  one long string, it was how I was doing things.
> Afterwards, I thought that concat could help me to indent the string
> for cases
> where it is too long.  Is there any other way to be able to indent,
> rather than
> using column number 1, when starting a new line?

The syntax rules in Emacs Lisp allow to quote a linebreak so that it
doesn't get part of the string, and that allows to write strings like this:

#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(message "\
A string
consisting
of multiple lines.")
#+end_src

When I want to use a string literal I prefer that.  All string lines are
indended equally, and Emacs-Lisp mode knows how to handle that,
i.e. indentation commands won't mess it up.  And you don't get overlong
lines with this method.


Michael.