Hi, as already said, I really like the new org-capture interface. But there's one thing concerning the templates, which might be optimized a bit.
I want to add certain information accessible with template escapes as properties. So as an example, I have a template like this: ("t" "TODO" entry (file "/home/horn/repos/org/remember.org") "* TODO %?\n :PROPERTIES:\n :created: %U\n :link: %a\n :END:\n %i") The creation date %U is always there, so that's no problem. But the link accessible with %a may be nil. Then, I really don't want to have a :link: property. Currently, I simply delete that line before filing the item. That's a bit inconvenient, and that I have to deal with indentation in the template is another inconvenience. And it won't work when my capture template doesn't create a new entry, but appends to an existing one. In that case, properties should be appended to existing properties, too. So what I would love to see was a possibility to have property escapes, which use the property API and only add properties that have a value. Then the property API would handle the correct indentation and everything else. Maybe, a good syntax would be %:propname:X, where X is one of the normal escapes without the leading %. Then I could write the template above like that: ("t" "TODO" entry (file "/home/horn/repos/org/remember.org") "* TODO %?\n %i %:created:U %:link:a") Well, I don't really care about the syntax. Maybe it's better to specify properties outside the template, because they won't be inserted at the exact position defined in the template anyway, especially if type is not 'entry. So how about something like that: ("t" "TODO" entry (file "/home/horn/repos/org/remember.org") "* TODO %?\n %i" :properties (("created" "%U") ("link" "%a"))) What do you think? Bye, Tassilo _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode