From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: Amos Bird <amosbird@gmail.com>
Cc: Org Mode Mailing List <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: use %A to prompt for plain text when there is not file
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 13:13:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h8vx62ta.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h8vxvd95.fsf@gmail.com> (Amos Bird's message of "Wed, 20 Sep 2017 19:08:22 +0800")
Amos Bird <amosbird@gmail.com> writes:
> when in a file backed buffer, doing org capture with %A generates
>
>
> [[some link][some description]]
>
> and if the buffer has no file associated with it, I'd like %A to generate
>
>
> some description
>
> the above "some description" is inputed via prompting user.
It sounds wrong to link to a temporary buffer, i.e., to volatile
contents. It may be more appropriate to use
%^{prompt}
in your template instead of
%A
when capturing from there.
WDYT?
Regards,
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-20 13:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-19 7:44 use %A to prompt for plain text when there is not file Amos Bird
2017-09-20 10:27 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-09-20 11:08 ` Amos Bird
2017-09-20 11:13 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2017-09-20 11:17 ` Amos Bird
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