At Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:50:00 -0800,
Suvayu Ali wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am having some problems with a capture template for datetrees.
>
> (setq org-capture-templates
>       '(("m" "Select meeting templates")
> 	("ms" "Schedule a meeting" entry (file+headline "~/org/meetings.org" "Meetings")
> 	 "** %? %^t%^{CATEGORY}p\n"
> 	 :empty-lines 1)
> 	("mm" "Meeting minutes w/ clock" entry (file+datetree "~/org/meetings.org")
> 	 "**** %^{prompt} %U%^{CATEGORY}p\n\n     %?"
> 	 :prepend t :clock-in :empty-lines 1 :immediate-finish)
> 	))
>
> I prefer to have empty lines between two headlines and headlines and
> text. When I use the above "Meeting minutes w/ clock" template, the new
> entry to the date tree is inserted as below despite the ":empty-lines 1"
> argument. If I try to end the older entry with a blank line, the empty
> like is removed and the new entry is placed like this again.
>
> Any one knows what I am doing wrong? Thank you in advance,

I can confirm that :emtpy-lines 1 seems to have no effect in a
datetree capture template.  I filed two with the template

,----
| (setq org-capture-templates
|       '(("X" "FOO" entry (file+datetree "/tmp/org/datetree.org" "Place table here" "" :empty-lines 1))))
`----

And ended up with:

,----
| * 2011
| ** 2011-01 Januar
| *** 2011-01-09 Sonntag
| **** Fofofof
|      [[file:~/projects/org-mode/minimal.el::'(("X"%20"FOO"%20entry%20(file%2Bdatetree%20"/tmp/org/datetree.org"%20"Table%20here"%20""%20:empty-lines%201))))][file:~/projects/org-mode/minimal.el::'(("X" "FOO" entry (file+datetree "/tmp/org/datetree.org" "Table here" "" :empty-lines 1))))]]
| **** Another one
|      [[file:~/projects/org-mode/minimal.el::'(("X"%20"FOO"%20entry%20(file%2Bdatetree%20"/tmp/org/datetree.org"%20"Table%20here"%20""%20:empty-lines%201))))d][file:~/projects/org-mode/minimal.el::'(("X" "FOO" entry (file+datetree "/tmp/org/datetree.org" "Table here" "" :empty-lines 1))))d]]
`----

While I expected an empty line between "Fofofof" and "Another one".

Using

Org-mode version 7.4 (release_7.4.135.g84087)

GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.0)
 of 2010-12-11 on raven, modified by Debian

Best,
  -- David
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