Re: Org Capture Menu cannot be fully viewed

[pietru]

> Sent: Sunday, December 13, 2020 at 1:00 AM
> From: "TRS-80" <lists.trs-80@isnotmyreal.name>
> To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Org Capture Menu cannot be fully viewed
>
> On 2020-12-12 18:30, pietru@caramail.com wrote:
> >> From: "TRS-80" <lists.trs-80@isnotmyreal.name>
> >>
> >> Well, it's up to you.  If you want we can pursue either option, or
> >> both
> >> (one potentially as a temporary workaround).  Or we can wait for more
> >> list replies and see what others think.  As I said there may also be a
> >> better way I am not aware of.  If I'm being honest, I have plenty
> >> other
> >> things to work on, too.  ;)  But since I open my big mouth now, I
> >> can't
> >> very well leave you hanging, now can I?  :D  It also depends on how
> >> complicated stuff we are talking...
> >
> > Very good of you.  If you let me give a basic long template (perhaps
> > "Investigation Site").  I can do both, get a fix, and work for an
> > Emacs incorporation .
> >
> >> Actually, another option just occurred to me.  I don't know where you
> >> are sending results of the capture template, but if you are just
> >> appending to file(s) perhaps you could break the one big template up
> >> into some number of smaller ones?
> >
> > One problem with that is that new entries are appended in vertical
> > (newline)
> > and cannot put options in a table.
>
> How about post up your long template somewhere and we can have a look?
> Maybe a paste site is better than the mailing list?  If you want to do
> that and are not aware of any good (non proprietary) one, I like and use
> a lot https://bpaste.net/ (which redirects now to https://bpa.st/,
> apparently).
>
> Maybe while I am at it I have a play about what might be required to get
> some scrolling to work with the template.  For all I know, it could be a
> simple fix...

That would be very good.  Very appreciative.  I am currently making a 
standalone example template
to play with.

> Others please feel free to jump in, too, maybe you know something I
> don't (about scrolling, I mean).
>
> Cheers,
> TRS-80
>
>