The ability I am looking forward here IS to find a location - it's just
that I need a little more detailed control.
For example, file+headline(or file+subheadline, or whatever) would find a
specific headline in a file, & inserts the entry under it, creating it if
it doesn't exist (IE * Notes)
file+datetree acts the same, but creates bits of a datetree to get to the
specific date.
What I want is (somewhat) of a combination of the two:
1) find/create the datetree to get today's date
2) under this subtree, find/create headline
3) insert the entry under this headline.
Ideally I'd like to grab a value using capture to specify the headline, but
from what I gather that's not going to happen. Nonetheless, I can live
with specifying 1 template for each category headline I need:
For a simple example:
datetree+headline capture template for headline * Notes
inserts entry into
* 2013
** April
*** 2013-04-09 Tuesday
**** PPT111 Dev Ticket for new functionality
***** Log <2013-04-09> Worked on spec for this ticket
CLOCK: [2013-04-09 Tue 08:40]
This simple extension would then give the ability to log in/out of the
PPT111 ticket, with notes on what was worked on, and a simple CLOCKTAB line
at the right level will bundle up all the time for a ticket in single
entries.
This functionality would also be useful for me as a student, with
sub-headlines for classes where I could add notes, todos, etc.
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Bastien <b...@altern.org> wrote:
> Hi Subhan,
>
> Subhan Tindall <subhan.tind...@rentrakmail.com> writes:
>
> > questions:
> > 1) are the values gathered by capture available to the function
> > specified for file+function, & if so what are their names?
>
> No.
>
> > 2) what is the general template for a function for use with
> > file+function, cleanup, return values, etc that would be expected?
>
> The function is expected to find a location where to put the new
> entry, not to return any specific value, and if it returns a value,
> the value is ignored. It can also act on the subtree at the location
> it has found, but this is slightly abusing the feature I'd say.
>
> > 3) would it be better to extend datetree to datetree+headline for
> > entries of this type? it seems like it a pretty usefully
> > functionality to have (I can think of 2 or 3 instances i'd regularly
> > use this just off the top of my head
>
> "datetree+headline" is improper, because a location in a datetree is
> a headline... so maybe your best chance is to use (function ...) or
> (file+function ...) and try to see if the function can interactively
> prompt for the values you want and edit the location as you want.
> But again, this goes beyond the purpose of function, which is to
> find to location.
>
> --
> Bastien
>
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