Fil

On 22 February 2011 04:15, Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:

On Feb 22, 2011, at 1:39 AM, Filippo A. Salustri wrote:

> Thanks to everyone for the varied and thoughtful responses. I didn't think of backquotes, but I know about them from Scheme, and no, they shouldn't work in this case.
>
> Very frustrating. org-capture clearly has the original buffer handy (for %a stuff) yet I can't get it out of there without hacking the org code, which I am loathe to do. Hmmm. I'll think some more. If I come up with anything; I'll report it.

I have just implemented that whenever you mean a file name
in capture templates, you can instead give a function, a
variable, or a lisp form. So your original attempt

>> ("m" "Message" entry (file+datetree (buffer-file-name
>> (buffer-base-buffer))) "* MSG @ %U %?\n %a")

should now work.

Hope this helps

- Carsten

>
> Cheers.
> Fil
>
> 2011/2/21 Sébastien Vauban <wxhgmqzgwmuf@spammotel.com>
> Hi Richard,
>
> Richard Lawrence wrote:
> > Sébastien Vauban <wxhgmqzgwmuf@spammotel.com> writes:
> >> "Filippo A. Salustri" wrote:
> >>> I would really like to be able to vary the file into which a captured item
> >>> goes. Specifically, I'd like to insert the item into whatever file I was
> >>> visiting when I started the capture.
> >
> >> You have to use backquotes so that expressions are considered as code to
> >> execute, instead of data. See Emacs manual.
> >
> > I'm not sure that backquotes will do what the OP wants. Backquotes will
> > allow the OP to compute the value of a target file at the time the (setq
> > org-capture templates ...) form is evaluated. The OP needs a way to
> > determine the target file at the time of capture (right?), not at the time
> > the variable is set.
>
> You're definitely right. I missed the distinction "at Org launch time" vs "at
> execution time"... Pull my answer off the records ;-)
>
> Best regards,
> Seb
>
> --
> Sébastien Vauban
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Emacs-orgmode mailing list
> Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list.
> Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
>
>
>
> --
> Filippo A. Salustri, Ph.D., P.Eng.
> Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
> Ryerson University
> 350 Victoria St, Toronto, ON
> M5B 2K3, Canada
> Tel: 416/979-5000 ext 7749
> Fax: 416/979-5265
> Email: salustri@ryerson.ca
> http://deseng.ryerson.ca/~fil/
> _______________________________________________
> Emacs-orgmode mailing list
> Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list.
> Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode

- Carsten

--
Filippo A. Salustri, Ph.D., P.Eng.
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Ryerson University
350 Victoria St, Toronto, ON
M5B 2K3, Canada
Tel: 416/979-5000 ext 7749
Fax: 416/979-5265
Email: salustri@ryerson.ca
http://deseng.ryerson.ca/~fil/