Add line number to org-capture

Question

Preface this by saying I program but I'm not a programmer, and I especially don't know lisp.

I use org capture during code reviews, and we use line numbers as a way or organizing changes that need to be made. Is there a way to have org-capture include the line number that point was at when org capture was called?

Answer 1

The org-capture function puts some properties into the org-capture-plist, i. a. :original-buffer, :original-file and :original-file-nondirectory, which all point to the buffer/file where the capture has been initiated from. The following addition to your capture template will insert the line-number at point in the original buffer:

%(with-current-buffer (org-capture-get :original-buffer) (number-to-string (line-number-at-pos)))

Answer 2

Well this might not be the best answer, but what I did was wrap org-capture in a function that sets a global variable to the line number right before calling org-capture.

Here's the function I used to set the plus-line-capture:

(defun org-plus-line-capture ()
  (interactive)
  (setq plus-line-capture (number-to-string (line-number-at-pos)))
  (org-capture))

Then in the capture template you can do this:

[[file://%F::%(concat plus-line-capture)][%^{Link Text}]]