Carsten Dominik <carsten.domi...@gmail.com> writes: > On Jan 7, 2011, at 4:00 PM, Štěpán Němec wrote: > >> Carsten Dominik <carsten.domi...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> On Jan 7, 2011, at 1:08 PM, Štěpán Němec wrote: >>>> Why aren't the %() expressions simply evaluated in the original buffer >>>> (if available)? That would solve these issues in a general way. It seems >>>> to me that there is no advantage to evaluating the expressions in the >>>> temporary capture buffer, but I'm not familiar with the code so I might >>>> be missing something. Is there a reason for that? >>> >>> The sexp can be used to insert stuff into the template, so I think it >>> is correct to evaluate it in the template buffer. >> >> I don't understand this argument. Of course the _result_ of the >> evaluation is inserted into the template, but why is it useful to >> evaluate the expression itself in the context of the template buffer? Is >> it likely that one would be interested in some information only >> available in the template buffer? To me it seems that the much more >> likely case is the one of Rainer -- i.e. the need to access variable >> bindings from the original buffer (buffer name, mode, other local >> variables etc.). > > > Such a function is allowed to do anything. It might search around > in the template, change things, whatever. So I don't think it > should be evaluated in a different buffer.
OK, thank you for the explanation. One can always do (with-current-buffer (org-capture-get :original-buffer) ...) should the need arise. Štěpán _______________________________________________ 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
