Ihor Radchenko <yanta...@gmail.com> writes: > Arthur Miller <arthur.mil...@live.com> writes: > >> Instead of hardcoding the actual work in the conditional statement, there >> should >> be a function to be called, so org-capture would setup its own work, some >> random >> "exec" menu like here would setup its own and so on. I haven't look at other >> parts of org you have mentioned, so I am not yet sure if the approach would >> work >> for all the kids in the block. I don't think it would that much harder to >> refactor this out, but I might be wrong, since I am not that familiar with >> org code. > > There are several slightly more complex things in org-agenda (you can > set extra switches in agenda menu to affect the subsequent command - see > agenda restriction), but please by all means go ahead if you have > interest in this area. > >> Factoring this out of Org itself, as suggested by RMS in the link you posted >> might be much more work though. I haven't looked at that, and question is if >> that is really worth the effort? I would agree with him that things like >> org-table and date/time handling would be great to have in entire Emacs, >> without >> need to load org, at least bigger parts of it. If I remember well, table mode >> started outside of org as its own minor mode and got merged into org. > > This is not an immediate goal. Rather a justification that we generally > aim for a more modular code structure. > >>> The above statement is a hint that patches are welcome :) >> >> As said, I am not that well familiar with org in-depth, and with other places >> that might need to be factored out, so I don't promise anything. Initially I >> just got a quick idea while working on a project of mine with org-capture, >> and >> hacked the 'org-capture' function to implement my idea :). > > Feel free at ask anything if you encounter difficulties. It is not > always trivial to convert something that works for you personally into > something suitable for all the people using Org.
Thank you for the help, I'll come back if I have to ask something for sure. I have looked little bit into org-agenda-capture and org-mks that does the real work, but I will have to familiarize myself more with org-agenda and other places before I dare to suggest something. best regards /a
