From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: dcm@bronto.com
Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "Invalid capture target specification"
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:05:06 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <12837.1279652706@alphaville.usa.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Dave Mason <dave.mason@bronto.com> of "Tue\, 20 Jul 2010 14\:43\:55 EDT." <AANLkTimDIevUkWwsIIUzEjPzOef6rSypqXb858Xz8FbG@mail.gmail.com>
Dave Mason <dave.mason@bronto.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Dave Mason <dave.mason@bronto.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:
> >> Dave Mason <dave.mason@bronto.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I'm trying to get the new org-capture set up. I did as the docs suggest
> >>> and imported my remember templates - then I removed the remember
> >>> elements from my .emacs except for making the C-cr keystroke point to
> >>> capture.
> >>>
> >>> However, now when I M-x org-capture - I get "Invalid capture target
> >>> specification" error.
> >>>
> >>> I don't understand the message - help?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> org-capture tried to figure out where the capture should be stored
> >> (which file, which headline etc) and failed (in the function
> >> org-capture-set-target-location).
> >>
> >> Probably an error in your spec for org-capture-templates. Do
> >>
> >> C-h v org-capture-templates
> >>
> >> and post the value you get.
> >
> >
> > Oh, interesting - it says the value is nil
> >
>
> So I suppose the issue here is that
> org-capture-import-remember-templates didn't work for me - though
> after I did it I viewed them with customize-variable and they all
> seemed to be in order.
>
> Guess I will need to recreate them.
>
Did you save it after you viewed it? The import sets the variable
for the current session, but it needs to be saved in some initialization
file for future sessions. Just click on 'Save for future sessions'.
Nick
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-20 17:53 "Invalid capture target specification" Dave Mason
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2010-07-20 18:13 ` Nick Dokos
2010-07-20 18:30 ` Dave Mason
2010-07-20 18:43 ` Dave Mason
2010-07-20 19:05 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
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