On Wed, 23 Sep 2020 at 12:15, Bastien <b...@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Sorry, I should have mentioned this, but the patch does not apply on
> master. If you have time to merge recent changes and reformat it, I
> can apply it right afterwarsds, otherwise I will try to do it myself
> later this week.
OK, herewith.
org-capture.el: Give a default value when prompting for a property
* lisp/org-capture.el (org-capture-templates, org-capture-fill-template):
Enable declaring a default value when prompting for a property during
capture.
* lisp/org.el (org-read-property-value): Add parameter DEFAULT for an
initial/default/suggested property value.
* doc/org-manual.org: Document declaring a default value for a prompted
property during capture.
diff --git a/doc/org-manual.org b/doc/org-manual.org
index 043f2ddd1..e7d25b90e 100644
--- a/doc/org-manual.org
+++ b/doc/org-manual.org
@@ -7858,7 +7858,8 @@ here:
- =%^{PROP}p= ::
- Prompt the user for a value for property {{{var(PROP)}}}.
+ Prompt the user for a value for property {{{var(PROP)}}}. You may
+ specify a default value with =%^{PROP|default}=.
- =%^{PROMPT}= ::
diff --git a/lisp/org-capture.el b/lisp/org-capture.el
index 2ef55cd5c..9ea0e9e73 100644
--- a/lisp/org-capture.el
+++ b/lisp/org-capture.el
@@ -332,6 +332,8 @@ be replaced with content and expanded:
%^C Interactive selection of which kill or clip to use.
%^L Like %^C, but insert as link.
%^{prop}p Prompt the user for a value for property `prop'.
+ A default value can be specified like this:
+ %^{prop|default}p.
%^{prompt} Prompt the user for a string and replace this sequence with it.
A default value and a completion table can be specified like this:
%^{prompt|default|completion2|completion3|...}.
@@ -1787,7 +1789,8 @@ The template may still contain \"%?\" for cursor positioning."
(setq l (org-up-heading-safe)))
(if l (point-marker)
(point-min-marker)))))))
- (value (org-read-property-value prompt pom)))
+ (value
+ (org-read-property-value prompt pom default)))
(org-set-property prompt value)))
((or "t" "T" "u" "U")
;; These are the date/time related ones.
diff --git a/lisp/org.el b/lisp/org.el
index d45a789f2..ec336c723 100644
--- a/lisp/org.el
+++ b/lisp/org.el
@@ -13300,11 +13300,12 @@ This is computed according to `org-property-set-functions-alist'."
(or (cdr (assoc property org-property-set-functions-alist))
'org-completing-read))
-(defun org-read-property-value (property &optional pom)
+(defun org-read-property-value (property &optional pom default)
"Read value for PROPERTY, as a string.
When optional argument POM is non-nil, completion uses additional
information, i.e., allowed or existing values at point or marker
-POM."
+POM.
+Optional argument DEFAULT provides a default value for PROPERTY."
(let* ((completion-ignore-case t)
(allowed
(or (org-property-get-allowed-values nil property 'table)
@@ -13320,7 +13321,8 @@ POM."
(if allowed
(funcall set-function
prompt allowed nil
- (not (get-text-property 0 'org-unrestricted (caar allowed))))
+ (not (get-text-property 0 'org-unrestricted (caar allowed)))
+ default nil default)
(let ((all (mapcar #'list
(append (org-property-values property)
(and pom
