From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: nested macro expansion?
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 19:33:15 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87egizo6mc.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87io8bo6uv.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net
Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
> What I'm trying to do is have a macro that takes the computed TIMESTAMP
> property for an entry, and then runs it through a custom function that
> breaks out the start/end times, and produces a nicely formatted string
> from that.
>
> I don't see how to write a macro that feeds the value of a computed
> special property to a function.
>
> Right now my testing version looks like this:
>
> #+MACRO: bubba (eval (format-time-string "%Y" "$1"))
>
> and I'm calling it like this:
>
> {{{bubba({{{property(TIMESTAMP)}}})}}}
>
> That doesn't expand the interior "{{{property(TIMESTAMP)}}}" clause.
> What `format-time-string' ends up seeing is "{{{property(TIMESTAMP",
> without the final braces etc.
>
> Is there any way to get that value expanded first, and then passed to
> `format-time-string' (or, eventually, my custom function)?
After googling for a while, I also thought this might work:
#+MACRO: bubba (eval (format-time-string "%Y" property{{{TIMESTAMP}}}))
{{{bubba}}}
But the nested definition isn't expanded, either with or without quotes.
E
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-08-19 11:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-19 11:28 nested macro expansion? Eric Abrahamsen
2015-08-19 11:33 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2015-08-19 14:43 ` Pip Cet
2015-08-19 15:03 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2015-08-19 20:18 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2015-08-20 1:24 ` Eric Abrahamsen
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