doct VS tempel

Doct! Writing org capture templates is a PITA.

For such a compelx logic in templates, I recommend (function function-returning-the-template) templates. Or you can explore https://github.com/progfolio/doct

https://github.com/progfolio/doct implements a way for templates to inherit from a parent group or template. There were plans to use doct in org-roam early on, but I no longer contribute to the project and I think it has continued down the path of using its own extensions to capture templates.

I use doct which I would advise to use as well if you want to write your templates more clean

also see: https://github.com/progfolio/doct for org-capture definition sugar

I have a capture template for Waiting For items, examples: * Waiting For ** WAITING Dan the Book man send me an invoice [[mu4e:msgid:[email protected]][Re: Looking for great books of the western world]] [2022-02-25 Fri] ** RECEIVED Doct maintainer respond to my [[https://github.com/progfolio/doct/issues/33][support query]] [2022-02-27 Sun] ** RECEIVED Dok van Putten respond to my [[mu4e:msgid:[email protected]][request RE Covid booster shot]] [2022-02-25 Fri]

https://github.com/progfolio/doct#hooks

TempEl could definitely replace tempo.el and even skeleton.el, but IMO the most unobtrusive and valuable addition will be orderless as a build in completion style.

I combine org capture templates with the tempel package which is a great templating package.

I would like to second this; writing snippets in this syntax is very easy. There's a new package for this as well: https://github.com/minad/tempel

I've created an issue for this.

I used the use-package configuration from: https://github.com/minad/tempel.

Regarding template integration, I was also wondering what org-block-capf/company offers on top. Maybe you can implement some special interactions? I use Tempel with templates like the following configured for org-mode:

A collection of templates for TempEl template engine. The collection is not so big as yasnippet-snippets just because I use a limited set of modes, but pull requests are always welcome. It is available on Melpa.

Big thanks for beautiful template package TempEl

Thanks! There's also tempel, which uses the tempo syntax, and so can benefit directly from this library.

I know exactly what I want, but it's such a chore to type out. A good example might be org-mode src blocks. Here I reach for a template-style abbrev/snippet package. Small plug for tempel, which reimagines tempo. Some modern lsp servers even include smart template expansion with "fields" you can hop around between (ya-snippet is good at this). There are lots of "libraries" of useful expansion templates for various modes for many of these tools.