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To: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>, Thomas Preindl <thomas.preindl@gmail.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org

On 11/26/15, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote:
> Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> writes:
>> just to clarify,
>>
>>   "%(alpha-org-protocol-string \"%:link\" \"%:description\" \"%i\")"
>>
>> is not recursive, right?
>
> It is.

the above is the only way i was able to get org-protocol to do what i needed.

> The first two are documented in org-capture-templates' docstring. So
> I guess they are fine. However, the last parameter is problematic. As
> pointed out by the OP, since it basically means "%(...)" are evaluated
> after "%i", it can lead to the following chain of events:
>
>   %i => %(evil-command) => Evil result.

i think i understand.  maybe we need another way to pass %i.