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I like the way org-capture works, it promotes a buffer for selecting predefined templates. I am trying to do something similar for setting variables.

For example, I have three HTML themes, one for office, one general use, and one for journal. I am trying to define a choose-html-themes() function which has similar behaviour.

I defined a list of options, 

(setq html-themes-list 
  '((Office . "<link rel=\"stylesheet\" ..... " )
    (General . "<link rel=\"stylesheet\" ..... ")
    (Journal . "<link rel=\"stylesheet\" ..... "))

When I call choose-html-themes function, then type

  • "o" to set the /entry/ variable to "Office"
  • "g" to "General"
  • "j" to "Journal".

Then it will look up the list using entry as key, and set the org-html-head variable to the returning value, something like 

(setq org-html-head (assoc entry html-themes-list))

I wonder how to popup a buffer, and capture keyboard input from that buffer?

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  • Doesn't answer the question but have you tried using the hydra package to do something similar? – Kaushal Modi Aug 8 '15 at 2:33
  • @kaushalmodi I tried using hydra, it can solve the problem, but complting-read is more elegant for this case. Thanks. – yi.tang.uni Aug 10 '15 at 8:19
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Use completing-read. See C-h f completing-read.

(let* ((user-input  (completing-read "Theme: " html-themes-list nil t))
       (theme-link  (cdr (assoc user-input html-themes-list))))
  (DO-SOMETHING-WITH theme-link))
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  • Great! I have been looking for this function for a long time! Compared with hydra, I like it more for providing the keys of the list as the selection candidates and I can use helm to choose. Very handy function. Thank you very much! – yi.tang.uni Aug 10 '15 at 8:23
  • I hesitated to write this answer because you specifically asked for org-capture stuff. But it seemed that this does correspond to what you were really trying to do, so I posted it. – Drew Aug 10 '15 at 13:46

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