Re: org-capture: question about function to create template

[Joost Kremers]

Hi Ihor & No Wayman,

Thanks for your replies.

On Tue, Mar 16 2021, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
> Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm> writes:
>
>> ... I was wondering if there's any
>> way for this function to access the state of the ongoing capture process.
>> Specifically, it would be useful for me if the function can find out the key 
>> of
>> the template that the user selected.
>
> See org-capture-plist.

Yes, I thought that might be it, but I wasn't sure.

On Mon, Mar 15 2021, No Wayman wrote:
>> From: Joost Kremers <joostkremers@fastmail.fm>
>> Specifically, it would be useful for me if the function can find out the key
>> of the template that the user selected.
>
> This is stored on the above plist as :key.
>
> There are some corner cases to consider if you have overlapping 
> capture processes.
> You'll want to look into `org-capture-get' and 
> `org-capture-current-plist' as well.

Thanks for the pointers. I'll dive in a little and see what's best for my use
case.



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