file or headline-local template for new subtree?

file or headline-local template for new subtree?

[Matt Price]

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I have this new system, in which I create a new subtree for every paper I
grade. I'd love to have the new subtree automatically populated by a
mostly-empty table on cration. Is this something I can do on a per-file
basis; or perhaps even something I can change with every level 1 heading?
I can think of a couple uses for this, actually.

Thx,
matt

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Re: file or headline-local template for new subtree?

[Rasmus]

Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> writes:

> I have this new system, in which I create a new subtree for every paper I
> grade. I'd love to have the new subtree automatically populated by a
> mostly-empty table on cration. Is this something I can do on a per-file
> basis; or perhaps even something I can change with every level 1 heading?
> I can think of a couple uses for this, actually.

I'm fond of org-structure-template-alist, but it might not be powerful
enough for what you want here.  On a per file basis you could bind some
letter in org-structure-template-alist.  ATM it cannot guess how to insert
a subtree.  But there's org-insert-subheading.

Rasmus

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Re: file or headline-local template for new subtree?

[Mike McLean]

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On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 5:31 PM, Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> wrote:

> Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I have this new system, in which I create a new subtree for every paper I
> > grade. I'd love to have the new subtree automatically populated by a
> > mostly-empty table on cration. Is this something I can do on a per-file
> > basis; or perhaps even something I can change with every level 1 heading?
> > I can think of a couple uses for this, actually.
>
> I'm fond of org-structure-template-alist, but it might not be powerful
> enough for what you want here.  On a per file basis you could bind some
> letter in org-structure-template-alist.  ATM it cannot guess how to insert
> a subtree.  But there's org-insert-subheading.
>

Something I do alot of is have Org Capture templates as files. This lets me
write a more complex capture template (in my case for one of several
“roles” that I take on ad-hoc but recurring basis during meetings).

I call the template with an entry like the following in
org-capture-templates.

("Mg" "Grammarian"
 entry
 (file+headline "~/Documents/OrgMaster/org/Toastmasters.org" "Miscellaneous
and Non-Goal roles 2015")
 (file "~/.init/emacs/org-capture-templates/grammarian.org_template")
 :jump-to-captured t :immediate-finish t)

In this specific case, it places the entry under a special pre-defined Org
heading, but I could always call org-capture with a `C-0' (zero) prefix to
insert a template at point.

I can edit the template file as things change, and it can be pretty complex
(some of my represent Projects: A header, several sub headers as tasks,
etc.).

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