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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: Ben Winslow <rain@bluecherry.net>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bug: aborting capture to new file leaves 1-byte file behind [8.2.7c]
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 00:11:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lhp4r9wd.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c2d0d0d195662e5cd55e7ceee7481371@bluecherry.net> (Ben Winslow's message of "Sun, 07 Sep 2014 01:59:07 -0400")

Hello,

Ben Winslow <rain@bluecherry.net> writes:

> I'm using a capture template to create a new file (via read-file-name)
> with some pre-filled #+STARTUP options.  I'm using immediate-finish,
> but while I was setting it up I noticed that captures to a new file
> will leave behind a 1-byte file (containing a newline) if aborted with
> org-capture-kill.
>
> To replicate, just add a new capture template pointing to
> a non-existent file, start capturing to it, then abort.

Thanks for you report. I can reproduce it, but I hardly consider it as
a bug.

Since your template is meant to populate the file, it is expected to be
created at some point anyway.

Note that it can contain more than a newline if you call, for example,
`time-stamp' from `before-save-hook'.


Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou

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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-07  5:59 Bug: aborting capture to new file leaves 1-byte file behind [8.2.7c] Ben Winslow
2014-09-27 22:11 ` Nicolas Goaziou [this message]

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