On Tue, Jul 26 2011, Christian Moe wrote: > On 7/26/11 8:20 PM, Eric Abrahamsen wrote: >> I've got a little sequence I use so often I'd like to automate it, but >> am not sure how. Basically it goes: >> >> 1. In Gnus, store a link to an email message >> 2. Call org-capture >> 3. Choose a template with a REPLY keyword, that gets stored in a certain >> subtree >> 4. Pull the last-stored link, to the email message, into the REPLY heading >> 5. Complete and restore what I had before >> >> If I want to write a single keystroke that does this, how do I insert >> the last stored link into the text of the capture template in an elisp >> function? Or should I not be using org-capture in a function to begin >> with? > > Can't you just call org-capture from the message and have a link added > automatically with %a in the template? See > [[info:org#Template%20expansion]]. (Caveat: Not tested, I'm not on > Gnus.)
Oh, ha! Don't know how I missed that, but you're quite right. It's still several keypresses, but not so many that it breaks the zone. If I need something more complex, I'll try Seb's solution. Thanks to you both! Eric
