From: "tenspd137 ." <dcday137@gmail.com>
To: Marco Wahl <marcowahlsoft@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Multiple capture templates in file
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 18:45:41 -0600 [thread overview]
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One thought I need to try either pushing one item at a time or
concatenation the list of options. I'll try it when I get a chance.
Playtime is over for now. Thanks for all help and suggestions so far.
C
On Oct 6, 2015 5:43 PM, "tenspd137 ." <dcday137@gmail.com> wrote:
> I can do the following in .emacs
>
> (setq org-capture-templates
> '(("t" "Todo" entry (file+headline (concat org-directory
> "/default.org") "Tasks")
> "* TODO %?")
> ("j" "Journal" entry (file+datetree (concat org-directory
> "/journal.org"))
> "* %?\nEntered on %U\n")
> ;;product or work specific stuff - I would like to move these
> to files and have
> ;;them loaded - maybe in the future
> ("p" "product")
> ("pt" "Product Todo" entry (file+headline (concat org-directory
> "/product.org") "Tasks") "* TODO %?")))
>
> and it works as expected
>
> but if I do this in .emacs:
> (setq org-capture-templates
> '(("t" "Todo" entry (file+headline (concat org-directory
> "/default.org") "Tasks")
> "* TODO %?")
> ("j" "Journal" entry (file+datetree (concat org-directory
> "/journal.org"))
> "* %?\nEntered on %U\n")))
> ;;product or work specific stuff - I would like to move these
> to files and have
> ;;them loaded - maybe in the future
>
> (load-file (concat org-directory
> "/capture-templates/product-templates.el"))
>
> with product-templates containing:
>
> (push '(("p" "product") ("pt" "Product - Todo" entry (file+headline
> (concat org-directory "/product.org") "Tasks") "* TODO %?"))
> org-capture-templates)
>
> and then I use C-c n to go to capture mode, it just hangs with the
> mouse cursor in a spinning wheel. Am I not translating the part to go
> into submenus correctly, or can you not add sub-menus as I am doing.
>
> Thanks!
>
> -C
>
> On Tue, Oct 6, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Marco Wahl <marcowahlsoft@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > "tenspd137 ." <dcday137@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> I am trying to figure out how to store multiple capture templates in a
> >> file, have several files of related templates, and then load all the
> >> files stored in a directory. For example, lets say I have two
> >> projects at work WorkProject1 and WorkProject2. Then I have two files
> >> in a directory org-templates called WorkProj1Templates.el and
> >> WorkTemplates2.el. How can I append the templates in these files to
> >> or capture templates? In my main .emacs, I have:
> >>
> >> (setq org-capture-templates
> >> '(("t" "Todo" entry (file+headline (concat org-directory
> >> "/default.org") "Tasks")
> >> "* TODO %?")
> >> ("j" "Journal" entry (file+datetree (concat org-directory
> >> "/journal.org"))
> >> "* %?\nEntered on %U\n")))
> >>
> >> I would like to then load the template files in org-templates. That
> >> way, when a project ends, I can just yank the templates. I have
> >> experimentally tried using add-to-list with org-capture-templates
> >> without success. Either that can't be done or my syntax was wrong?
> >
> > How could anyone tell if you don't show your attempt?
> >
> >> Does anyone have any ideas?
> >
> > What about this?
> >
> > WorkProj1Templates.el:
> >
> > #v+
> > (push '("1" "Todo" entry
> > (file+headline
> > (concat org-directory "/WorkProj1.org")
> > "Tasks")
> > "* TODO %?")
> > org-capture-templates)
> > #v-
> >
> > --
> > Marco Wahl
> > GPG: 0x49010A040A3AE6F2
> >
> >
>
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-06 19:35 Multiple capture templates in file tenspd137 .
2015-10-06 20:38 ` Marco Wahl
2015-10-06 21:01 ` Subhan Michael Tindall
2015-10-06 21:15 ` tenspd137 .
2015-10-06 23:43 ` tenspd137 .
2015-10-07 0:45 ` tenspd137 . [this message]
2015-10-07 6:45 ` tenspd137 .
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