Re: empty lines in datetree capture templates

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: David Maus <dmaus@ictsoc.de>
Cc: emacs-org <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: empty lines in datetree capture templates
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:58:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8E3EE8DE-E8C0-4A2B-AC3E-D60287934E64@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r5cmkv2p.wl%dmaus@ictsoc.de>

On Jan 9, 2011, at 3:31 PM, David Maus wrote:

> 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)

After clock-in and after :immediate-finish, t is missing - all these  
keys need a value!
The way you write it, :clock-in has the value :empty lines, and from  
then on the property list is broken.

>> 	))
>>
>> 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))))
> `----

Also this looks like a buggy template definition to me.  If I fix it to:

  (setq org-capture-templates
        '(("X" "FOO" entry (file+datetree "~/org/xxxx.org") "* Place  
table here" :empty-lines 1)))

I do get empty lines.

If you make the templates with customize, it is much harder to make  
mistakes in a complex variable like this.

Best wishes

- Carsten

>
> 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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