From: Myles English <mylesenglish@gmail.com>
To: George Taylor <menemenetekelupharsin@gmx.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Cannot get capture to work on Emacs 24.3.1 - Org itself does work
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 22:14:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wpz8hbnz.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <trinity-df7fe388-3162-4698-a245-59930ce320e5-1434142470756@3capp-mailcom-bs01>
Hello George,
George Taylor writes:
> I cannot get Capture to work.
>
> Summary:
> I have successfully installed and used emacs on my laptop, and am happily using Org mode.
> I cannot get Capture to work. I have edited my .emacs file, but I am getting an error when starting emacs, and C-c c does not work.
>
> Detail:
> I have installed
>
> 24.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601) of 2013-03-17 on MARVIN on my laptop running Windows XP (Japanese).
>
> Org-mode works.
>
> I edited my .emacs file per .../manual/Setting-up-capture.html#Setting-up-capture
> by adding
try this here, before the setq for org-default-notes-file below:
(setq org-directory "c:/home/yadda/yadda")
or if you have already started emacs you can put the cursor after the
last bracket and hold down Ctl and press x then e to evaluate it. Then
do the same for the line below that sets org-default-notes-file. You
can check if the variable has been set properly by pressing Ctl-h v
then typing org-directory.
Myles
> (setq org-default-notes-file (concat org-directory "/notes.org"))
> (define-key global-map "\C-cc" 'org-capture)
>
> Now, when I start emacs normally, I get the warning:
>
> ...: An error occurred while loading `c:/home/.emacs':
>
> Symbol's value as variable is void: org-directory
>
> To ensure normal operation...
>
> I restarted emacs by running
>
> runemacs.exe --debug-init
>
> and got the foolowing Backtrace:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable org-directory)
> (concat org-directory "/notes.org")
> (setq org-default-notes-file (concat org-directory "/notes.org"))
> eval-buffer(#<buffer *load*> nil "c:/home/.emacs" nil t) ; Reading at buffer position 1168
> load-with-code-conversion("c:/home/.emacs" "c:/home/.emacs" t t)
> load("~/.emacs" t t)
> #[0 "\b\205\262 (and a lot of other code conversions that don't seem to copy and paste)
>
> I have referred to the org manual, and read the FAQ. I do not see this problem addressed. I hope you can help me.
>
> Why is the variable org-directory void?
> Do I need to edit some file other than .emacs?
> Is there something else I should do?
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2015-06-12 20:54 Cannot get capture to work on Emacs 24.3.1 - Org itself does work George Taylor
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