Tim Landscheidt <t...@tim-landscheidt.de> writes: > I (want to) have a capture template that fills a table and > then (re-)calculates a cell based on a formula (and aligns > the table): > ... > If I naively append "%(org-table-recalculate t)" to that > template, the expression gets evaluated immediately when I > start the capture and the text: > > | %![Error: (user-error Not at a table)] > > gets appended to the capture buffer /before/ I get prompted > for the first field. > > Looking at the hooks for org-capture-mode, I also thought > about recalculating the table at finalizing the capture (*1) > and tried:
> | %(progn (message "org-capture-prepare-finalize-hook = %S" > org-capture-prepare-finalize-hook) (add-hook > 'org-capture-prepare-finalize-hook (lambda nil (message "Hook called.")) 0 t) > (message "org-capture-prepare-finalize-hook = %S" > org-capture-prepare-finalize-hook) "") %(...) expansion is executed _before_ capture template is fully calculated. It is generally not designed to side-effect functions. You can instead use template-local hooks, introduced in Org 9.6. See https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git/tree/etc/ORG-NEWS#n1270 -- Ihor Radchenko // yantar92, Org mode contributor, Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>. Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>, or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>
