Re: [O] Capture template -- Global replacement of prompt string in buffer?

[Bernt Hansen]

Michael Baum <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm not sure (because I didn't understand what was going on) if this is the 
> same question that Sebastian Fischmeister  asked earlier ("Custom escapes & 
> the evaluation order in fill-template"), but is it
> possible to construct a capture template using something like the %{prompt} 
> that replaces _all_ occurrences of the prompt string throughout the capture 
> buffer,  rather than just at the insertion point of
> the escape expression?
>
> I want to do something like this:
> -----------8<--------------------------------
> ("p" "phone log" entry (file+datetree org-phone-log)
> "* %^{Organization} - %^{First Name} %^{Last Name}
> :PROPERTIES:
> :FIRST_NAME: {First Name}
> :LAST_NAME: {Last Name}
> :ORG: {Organization}
> :END:
>
> usw.
> -----------8<--------------------------------
>
> where the value entered in response to {First Name} gets globally substituted 
> in two or more places in the template.
>
> Can this be done?

Hi Michael,

Yes this is possible but you have to reference the prompt fields by
position.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
("p" "phone log" entry (file+datetree org-phone-log)
 "* %^{Organization} - %^{First Name} %^{Last Name}
:PROPERTIES:
:FIRST_NAME: %\\2
:LAST_NAME: %\\3
:ORG: %\\1
:END:
")
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Should do what you want I think.

Regards,
Bernt