From: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug] org-capture fails with undefined org-time-was-given variable
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 11:07:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8738td20qt.fsf@pierrot.dokosmarshall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8761yaca3w.fsf@pinto.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk
Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I have the following org capture template:
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
> (setq org-capture-templates '(("j" "journal" entry (file+datetree+prompt "~/s/notes/journal.org")
> "* %(format-time-string \"%H:%M\") %^{Entry} %^G\n%i%?")))
> #+end_src
>
> (other rules elided for clarity). Trying this today (after not using it
> for a long time), I get the following error:
>
> ,----
> | Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable org-time-was-given)
> | org-capture-set-target-location()
> | org-capture(nil)
> | call-interactively(org-capture nil nil)
> | command-execute(org-capture)
> `----
>
> I don't actually use this rule any longer as I prefer to clock in and
> out but I was trying to show a friend how he could use org for
> journalling.
>
> I've had a look at the source (reasonably up to date) but this variable
> does not seem to be something I should be setting. Is my capture rule
> somehow wrong? Or is this a bug in org-capture?
>
FWIW, I tried the capture rule in a minimal emacs and it's working fine
for me:
Org-mode version 8.0.3 (release_8.0.3-144-gbd09fe @
/home/nick/elisp/org-mode/lisp/)
That includes a bunch of private commits, but when I look at git history
I don't find the commit you mention in your org version, f1b99a, so
maybe you have your own bunch of private commits and one or more of them
broke something? Maybe try a vanilla org?
The variable is indeed not to be set by you: it's a dynamically scoped
variable, so somebody binds it at some level and then every callee
(direct or indirect) can access it. Stepping through
org-capture-set-location shows that it is unbound up until the call to
org-read-date (line 907-909 in org-capture.el) and it is bound on return
from that function, at least in my case.
> Any suggestions or pointers welcome!
>
> Thanks,
> eric
--
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-23 15:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-23 9:35 [bug] org-capture fails with undefined org-time-was-given variable Eric S Fraga
2013-05-23 15:07 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2013-05-24 8:50 ` Eric S Fraga
2013-06-27 13:36 ` Bastien
2013-05-23 17:54 ` Bastien
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