Hi Kyle,
thanks a lot for your workaround! I just tested it and it almost does what I am
looking for.
The only thing that does not work is to give a range of time, i.e. 10:00-12:00.
And looking at your code it is clear, that this cannot work because neither
"%t" nor "%T" can do this.
I guess in the long run, it would make sense to adapt the template expansion
"%t" to behave like the function "org-time-stamp".
Such an adaption would create more consistent behaviour for org users and does
not break any former usage.
I checked the the part in org-capture.el and it looks like this
((or "t" "T" "u" "U")
;; These are the date/time related ones.
(let* ((upcase? (equal (upcase key) key))
(org-end-time-was-given nil)
(time (org-read-date upcase? t nil prompt)))
(org-insert-time-stamp
time (or org-time-was-given upcase?)
(member key '("u" "U"))
nil nil (list org-end-time-was-given))))
But unfortunately, I am not an elisp programmer and I cannot do the adaption
myself.
I am sorry for that.
Once more, thanks.
Nils
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 20. Mai 2020 um 06:02 Uhr
Von: "Kyle Meyer" <k...@kyleam.com>
An: "Nils Schween" <nils.schw...@web.de>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Betreff: Re: Capture Template Diary Entry: file+datetree+prompt use the
prompted timestamp including the time when time is specified
Nils Schween writes:
> ("d" "Diary entry" entry (file+datetree+prompt
> "~/MPIK-Nextcloud/emacs/.org/kalender.org")
> "* %i%?\n %T")
>
> And it works as expected: When calling the capture template, I am prompted
> for a
> date and I can also type a time, and on saving everything is stored at the
> correct location in the datetree. Perfect. But in case I do not enter a time,
> 00:00 is inserted. This is unfortunate. Okay, I can replace "%T" in the
> template
> with "%t", but then any specification of time is ignored.
>
> Instead, I would love to mimic the behaviour of the function
> "org-time-stamp". Calling it
> prompts for a date, and if I do not specify a time, only the date is inserted.
> In case I specify a time or a range (i.e. 10:00-12:00) the timestamp is
> supplemented with this additional information.
>
> I tried a lot to get the desired behaviour by testing variants of the
> following
> combination of org-mode functions and variables.
> %(org-insert-time-stamp (org-read-date nil t org-read-date-final-answer) t)
>
> I was not able to produce what I wanted.
>
> Does anyone have a workaround or an idea how I could implement the described
> and
> wished behaviour? Thanks.
I'm not aware of any built-in way to do what you want. For either
implementing or working around, org-capture-set-target-location and
org-capture-fill-template are the two places you'd probably want to
look. As a start of a hacky workaround, with an entry like
("d" "Diary entry" entry (file+datetree "/tmp/scratch.org")
"* %i%?\n %T" :time-prompt t)
you should be able to get the time/no time behavior you're after with
(advice-add 'org-capture-fill-template :around
(lambda (fn &optional template &rest args)
(let ((template (and (not org-time-was-given)
(replace-regexp-in-string
"%T" "%t"
(org-capture-get :template) t))))
(apply fn template args)))
'((name . "org-capture-hack")))
