Re: How can I use org-add-note with emacsclient?

[Ihor Radchenko]

equal.moon0346@fastmail.com writes:

> I'm trying to figure out how to start a note (C-c C-z) on the currently 
> clocked task from emacsclient. Here's what I have so far:
> ...
> emacsclient -s test -nw --eval '(progn (org-clock-goto) (org-add-note))'
>
> This seems to have no effect. Oddly, if I paste this into M-:, it works fine. 
> I've tried a number of things with e.g. plain capture templates that run the 
> above code :after-finalize, using call-interactively, etc. After a cursory 
> reading through the info manual on interactivity I find I'm still a bit lost. 
> Can anyone explain what I'm doing wrong and hopefully point me to the right 
> manual page to read on this?

`org-add-note' is implemented a bit awkwardly using post-command-hook,
which makes it work only interactively.
The hook does not trigger when you use --eval. That's why you are not
seeing the note buffer after running the above shell command.

What you can do is manually call the function used to raise the note
buffer:

emacsclient -nw --eval '(progn (org-clock-goto) (org-add-note) 
(org-add-log-note))'

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