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

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

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).


> 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