From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
To: "François Allisson" <francois@allisson.co>
Cc: Org mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Capture template expansion: feature or bug?
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 15:17:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zi36dbvz.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m1y3ixgswi.fsf@allisson.co> ("François Allisson"'s message of "Mon, 12 Mar 2018 17:28:29 +0100")
Hello,
François Allisson <francois@allisson.co> writes:
> When one uses the following template expansion,
>
>> %^{prop}p Prompt the user for a value for property ‘prop’.
>
> it supposes one to supply a non-empty string of characters. If one
> simply hits RETURN on a given prompt for property, the capture process
> ends with an
>
>> org-capture: Capture abort: (quit)
>
> message. This means that all prompts for properties are mandatory. It
> this a feature or a bug?
I tried reproducing your issue with the following template:
("B" "BUG" entry (file "/tmp/bug-capture.org") "* %?%^{prop}p")
However, I cannot reproduce it.
> Of course, if I ask the question, it is because I clearly see use cases
> for optional properties prompts (which would leave empty the property in
> question): you ask for several information, which you don't always have;
> and you don't want the capture process to quit because of that. But may
> be there is a better way to achieve this?
Another problem is: do you want to skip the property altogether, or set
it to an empty string?
> Org 9.0.10 / Emacs 25.2.1
I suggest to update Org, BTW.
Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou
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2018-03-12 16:28 Capture template expansion: feature or bug? François Allisson
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