From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: xristos <xristos@sdf.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-capture: Avoid inserting a new line when the template is empty
Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2018 16:40:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r2l2et5s.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41k1rf1n1d.fsf@sdf.org> (xristos's message of "Sun, 03 Jun 2018 19:13:34 -0400")
Hello,
xristos <xristos@sdf.org> writes:
> An example of a capture workflow that I am using all the time
> is the following:
>
> ("bbp" "Preview book" plain
> (file+function "~/org/books.org.gpg" xristos/org-capture-preview-find-location)
> "" :immediate-finish t :jump-to-captured t :empty-lines 0)
>
> The idea is that the function I provide is fully responsible for cursor positioning
> and entry manipulation. To that end, I pass an empty template ("") and
> set :immediate-finish to t. This has been working fine with an older Org
> version but since I recently updated to Org 9.1.13, org-capture-fill-template will
> insert a new line every single time which is not what I want to happen.
>
> The relevant code is at org-capture.el, line 1843. I think that having a way
> to tell Org not to change the user-provided template at all and just use
> it verbatim would be useful in the general sense.
>
> For my own needs, I've added an extra property (:verbatim-template) which I
> check for inside org-capture-fill-template:
>
> @@ -1840,7 +1840,8 @@ The template may still contain \"%?\" for cursor positioning."
> (goto-char (point-max))
> (skip-chars-backward " \t\n")
> (delete-region (point) (point-max))
> - (insert "\n")
> + (unless (org-capture-get :verbatim-template)
> + (insert "\n"))
IMO, :verbatim-template is not generally useful. In any case, I pushed
a fix in master. Does it fix your issue?
Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou
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