Yes, thanks. That substring was a bad copy. Any insight why the (shell-command "uuidgen" t) wasn't working?
On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 3:03 AM Diego Zamboni <di...@zzamboni.org> wrote: > Hi LB, > > How about using the =org-id-uuid= function instead of shelling out to > uuidgen? In my quick test the following seems to behave properly: > > (defun template-myid () > (insert "\n:PROPERTIES:\n:TIME: " > (format-time-string "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S") > "\n:VERTEX: " > (org-id-uuid) > "\n:EDGES: \n:END:")) > > Note that I also removed the wrapping (substring (format ...)), which > didn't seem to be necessary. > > --Diego > > > On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 5:39 AM Lawrence Bottorff <borg...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> I want to insert upon creating a heading a PROPERTIES drawer. So far I >> have this >> >> (defadvice org-insert-heading (after add-id-stuff activate) >> (template-myid)) >> >> (defun template-myid () >> (insert "\n:PROPERTIES:\n:TIME: " >> (substring (format "%s" (format-time-string "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S"))) >> "\n:VERTEX: " >> (substring (format "%s" (shell-command "uuidgen" t))) >> "\n:EDGES: \n:END:")) >> >> This is working -- sort of. My problem is the uuid is getting thrown >> around. The output looks like this >> >> * Heading >> :PROPERTIES: >> :TIME: 2020-03-10T23:34:17 >> :VERTEX: 12836 >> :EDGES: >> :END:32bf9499-f9e2-49d9-b8e7-9edb40272411 >> >> Not sure how to make this behave. >> >> LB >> >
