From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: Simao <smm@imap.cc>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-capture exists with "Capture abort: (wrong type argument...)"
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 09:58:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87eg0aug5d.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1484058449.3606814.843112001.3FF9BB31@webmail.messagingengine.com> (Simao's message of "Tue, 10 Jan 2017 15:27:29 +0100")
Hello,
Simao <smm@imap.cc> writes:
> I am trying to run `org-capture` to capture a journal entry but
> `org-capture` always aborts with the following trace:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Capture abort:
> (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)")
> signal(error ("Capture abort: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)"))
> error("Capture abort: %s" (wrong-type-argument stringp nil))
> org-capture(nil)
> funcall-interactively(org-capture nil)
> call-interactively(org-capture nil nil)
> command-execute(org-capture)
>
> Is there a problem with my settings? I am using the template suggested
> in the manual.
You are not using the template suggested in the manual. Your capture
location is "~/Sync/journal.org.txt", which is not in Org mode. You
cannot create a tree there if it is not the case.
I improved the error message returned by Org capture under those
circumstances. Thank you.
Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-11 10:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-10 14:27 org-capture exists with "Capture abort: (wrong type argument...)" Simao
2017-01-11 8:58 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]
2017-01-11 11:03 ` Simao
2017-01-11 11:10 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-01-11 14:14 ` Simao
2017-01-11 14:50 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-01-11 15:05 ` Simao
2017-01-11 16:40 ` Simao
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