Erik Iverson wrote:
>I tried to debug, and it looks like that variable is not getting
>evaluated for some reason.  I'm sure it's obvious to someone,
>but is there a way around this?

>Hardcoding the path is actually problematic, since my org
>files are passed around various machines using git/Dropbox,
>and therefore the path is different depending on where I
>am located.

>Below is the simplest example I could come up with, just
>create a ~/test.org file and try it out.

>   ;; a path to some org-files
>   (setq org-test-path "/tmp")
>   ;; a specific org-file
>   (setq org-test-file (concat org-test-path "/test.org"))

>   (setq org-capture-templates
>         '(("t" "Todo" entry (file+headline org-test-file "Tasks")
>            "* TODO %?\n  %i\n  %a")
>           ("b" "Buy" item (file+olp org-test-file "Stuff to Buy" "House")
>            "")))

The symbol `org-test-file' is indeed not evaluated because the entire
template list is quoted.  You can use backquotes (Elisp manual, 13.5)
to tell Emacs to evaluate parts of the lisp:

,----
| (setq org-capture-templates
|       `(("t" "Todo" entry (file+headline ,org-test-file "Tasks")
| 	 "* TODO %?\n  %i\n  %a")
| 	("b" "Buy" item (file+olp ,org-test-file "Stuff to Buy" "House")
| 	 "")))
`----

The lisp starts with the backtick (`) and all expressions that are
prefix by comma (,) are evaluated.

HTH,
  -- David
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