Hi,


On 04/03/18 06:40, Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Luke <mideniko1234-org@yahoo.co.uk> writes:
>
>> org-capture seems to be inserting an extra line before the task
>> heading. So the narrowed buffer for editing the task looks something
>> like this:
>>
>> -------------------- Top of window ---------------
>>
>> ** TODO My new task
>>     [2018-03-02 Fri]
>>     [[file:~/.notes]]
>> -------------------- End of buffer ---------------
>>
>> I would expect the task heading to be the first line in the buffer.
>> After pressing 'C-c C-c' the resulting file looks like this:
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------
>> * Tasks
>>
>> ** TODO My new task
>>     [2018-03-02 Fri]
>>     [[file:~/.notes]]
>> --------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Is this a bug? If not, how do I stop the blank line from being
>> inserted before the heading. As far as I can tell, this is not related
>> to org-blank-before-new-entry.
> Could you show the capture template you used? I do not notice anything
> like that with my templates.
>
> Regards,
>
I've set up a minimal-org.el file with the following contents:

     ;; Minimal setup to load latest 'org-mode'

     ;; activate debugging
     (setq debug-on-error t
           debug-on-signal nil
           debug-on-quit t)

     ;; add latest org-mode to load path
     (add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "~/elisp/org-mode/lisp"))
     (add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name 
"~/elisp/org-mode/contrib/lisp" t))

Then I've run emacs with `emacs -Q -l minimal-org.el`. So I'm just 
running the with org-mode default capture template, which (taken from 
org-capture.el) would be:

     ("t" "Task" entry (file+headline "" "Tasks")
      "* TODO %?\n  %u\n  %a")