Re: [Orgmode] Bug: Bad doc [7.4]

[Carsten Dominik]

On Dec 20, 2010, at 9:06 AM, Dave Abrahams wrote:

> At Mon, 20 Dec 2010 08:40:50 +0100,
> Carsten Dominik wrote:
> > This is a bit tricky and not fully documented.
> >
> > If you have no or only only a single template defined, then
> > template selection is bypassed and you do not get a chance
> > to press C to get to the customization buffer.  This is to
> > please John Wiegley :) who only uses a single capture template
>
> And I'm using his template, practically unmodified :-)
>
> > and rightfully wanted to lose the extra key press.
>
> And I like that feature myself.
>
> > As soon
> > as you have at least 2 templates, you will get the menu and
> > also the chance to press `C'.
> >
> > I am not quite sure what to do about it, documenting it makes
> > things look more complicated as they are.
>
> Hmm, seems to me that it would be more principled to have org-capture
> take an optional argument that indicates the template index, and ask
> me and John to bind our key to (lambda () (org-capture 0))

You are right, this is better for consistency.
You can do that already, bind something like (org-capture "t")
where "t" is the selection key.

(define-key global-map "\C-c c"
   (lambda () (interactive) (org-capture "t")))

Thanks.

- Carsten

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