Re: Re: Questions about org-capture templates and usage

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Dec 6, 2010, at 9:20 AM, Carsten Dominik wrote:

>
> On Dec 6, 2010, at 6:02 AM, Alan E. Davis wrote:
>
>> I am at much greater ease due to these two messages.  They solve  
>> several of my befuddlements about capture.
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca> wrote:
>> I visit newly captured items all the time.  If you capture  
>> something (I
>> have C-M-r bound to org-capture) and store it with C-c C-c you can  
>> visit
>> it immediately with a double prefix  C-u C-u C-M-r as stated in the
>> org-capture docstring:
>>
>> This is exactly what I was looking for in the manual.
>
> Wow, I cannot believe I forgot to put these into the manual!  Crazy.
> They are in not (git version).

Sigh, one of my many standard typos:  They are in NOW.

- Carsten


>
>
>> In fact, I think my comment about the manual was partly a response  
>> to being unable to find this item in the   manual, when I know I  
>> had seen reference to it somewhere.  Maybe in my request for items  
>> to be included in the manual, the docstrings in org-capture.el  
>> would be scanned.  I missed this on my cursory search of that  
>> file.  I will search for it myself, and work on (believe it or not)  
>> org-help.org, that I use as a helpmate.
>>
>> I have org-capture assigned to C-c, so C-u C-u C-c c goes straight  
>> to the last stored item.  Perfect.
>>
>> |
>> | (org-capture &optional GOTO KEYS)
>> |
>> I THINK I understand that GOTO here refers to the prefix C-u ?  And  
>> C-u C-u circumvents this?
>>
>> | When called interactively with a C-u prefix argument GOTO, don't  
>> capture
>> | anything, just go to the file/headline where the selected template
>> | stores its notes.  With a double prefix argument C-u C-u, go to  
>> the last note
>>                     
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> | stored.
>> ^^^^^^
>>
>> This is it! What I was looking for.
>>
>> I think, thought it may seem crazy, I would like to still have a  
>> way to specify in the template that one would remain with the newly  
>> captured item in its environment, after finalizing.   Just the  
>> same, thinking about that it's an indirect buffer, it makes more  
>> sense how it works now...
>
> You can just widen during capture if you wish: C-x n w will show you  
> the entire buffer.
> You still need to finalize at some point with C-c C-c though.
>
>>
>> Awe, heck, these two methods solve my problem well enough...
>>
>> |
>> | When called with a `C-0' (zero) prefix, insert a template at point.
>> |
>>
>> This is a great feature...
>>
>> | Lisp programs can set KEYS to a string associated with a template  
>> in
>> | `org-capture-templates'.  In this case, interactive selection  
>> will be
>> | bypassed.
>> `----
>>
>> This is something I'd like to see an example of.
>
> (defun my-capture-k ()
>  (interactive)
>  (org-capture nil "k"))
>
> will directly get you into capture template k.
>
> - Carsten
>

- Carsten