Hi David,

When you say org-mode template are you referring to Capture templates
for creating TODO items? Does having the %i variable in the Capture
template copy the email text you are looking for?

http://orgmode.org/manual/Template-expansion.html#Template-expansion

Nick Peihl


On 5/24/2013 12:22 AM, David Belohrad wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> i'm constantly facing a task: someone sends me an email to do
> something, and I'm manually copying contents of email into org-mode
> task using org-mode templates. The template itself only enters the
> 'default' todo line and when it was entered, but I'd like to copy the
> contents of the email I'm currently in into that buffer.
>
> This would allow me to get e.g. exchange meeting request and seamlessly
> copy it into my agenda.
>
> is there any way how to get 'current email' (not current thread)
> contents into kill ring so I could write a small script to paste it into
> org-mode template?
>
> thanks
>
> .d.
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