Multi-line text interactive functions?
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Ambitious-Ad8342 · 2022-04-12 21:13

Hi,

I'm looking to create an interactive *form*, that fills out headers in
an org-capture template.

I don't want to "just" use the minibuffer, because it looks like a
single line of text. I want to be able to fill in paragraphs of text
within the minibuffer (or other kind of buffer), to be used
interactively in the function.

This way I can fill out a form in a multi-stage process. And it fills
out an org file's headers, rather than e.g. a csv file if I used
`form-mode`.

Is this possible? Any alternatives that one might be able to
recommend?

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7890yuiop · 2022-04-12 21:42

I suspect you could employ any one of the numerous snippet/skeleton
libraries (such as yasnippet) for that.

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ieure · 2022-04-12 22:08

Agree, I was just going to suggest this.

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akirakom · 2022-04-13 01:19

See the info manual on Autotyping.

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Ambitious-Ad8342 · 2022-04-13 01:49

Thanks.