From: Amos Bird <amosbird@gmail.com>
To: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
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 19:17:06 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fubhvcul.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h8vx62ta.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Um, but I'd like to use this template for both cases. When inside a temporary, don't generate a
link, but plain text instead, while in a file buffer, generate the link as usual.
regards,
Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> writes:
> 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,
--
Amos Bird
amosbird@gmail.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-20 13:21 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
2017-09-20 11:17 ` Amos Bird [this message]
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