From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Simao Subject: org-capture exists with "Capture abort: (wrong type argument...)" Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 15:27:29 +0100 Message-ID: <1484058449.3606814.843112001.3FF9BB31@webmail.messagingengine.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52331) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cQxOj-0004lb-I5 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2017 09:27:38 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cQxOf-00013K-IF for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2017 09:27:37 -0500 Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:56551) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cQxOf-00012i-CH for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2017 09:27:33 -0500 Received: from compute6.internal (compute6.nyi.internal [10.202.2.46]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id D143320885 for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2017 09:27:29 -0500 (EST) List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org I am trying to run `org-capture` to capture a journal entry but `org-capture` always aborts with the following trace: Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Capture abort: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)") signal(error ("Capture abort: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)")) error("Capture abort: %s" (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)) org-capture(nil) funcall-interactively(org-capture nil) call-interactively(org-capture nil nil) command-execute(org-capture) Is there a problem with my settings? I am using the template suggested in the manual. Thanks, Simao Emacs : GNU Emacs 25.1.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.5) of 2016-12-23 Package: Org-mode version 8.2.10 (release_8.2.10 @ /usr/share/emacs/25.1/lisp/org/) current state: ============== (setq org-tab-first-hook '(org-hide-block-toggle-maybe org-src-native-tab-command-maybe org-babel-hide-result-toggle-maybe org-babel-header-arg-expand) org-speed-command-hook '(org-speed-command-default-hook org-babel-speed-command-hook) org-occur-hook '(org-first-headline-recenter) org-metaup-hook '(org-babel-load-in-session-maybe) org-confirm-shell-link-function 'yes-or-no-p org-capture-templates '(("j" "Journal" entry (file+datetree "~/Sync/journal.org.txt") "* %?\nEntered on %U\n %i\n %a") ) org-startup-indented t org-after-todo-state-change-hook '(org-clock-out-if-current) org-from-is-user-regexp nil org-src-mode-hook '(org-src-babel-configure-edit-buffer org-src-mode-configure-edit-buffer) org-agenda-before-write-hook '(org-agenda-add-entry-text) org-babel-pre-tangle-hook '(save-buffer) org-mode-hook '(er/add-org-mode-expansions #[nil "\300\301\302\303\304$\207" [org-add-hook change-major-mode-hook org-show-block-all append local] 5] #[nil "\300\301\302\303\304$\207" [org-add-hook change-major-mode-hook org-babel-show-result-all append local] 5] org-babel-result-hide-spec org-babel-hide-all-hashes) org-ctrl-c-ctrl-c-hook '(org-babel-hash-at-point org-babel-execute-safely-maybe) org-cycle-hook '(org-cycle-hide-archived-subtrees org-cycle-hide-drawers org-cycle-hide-inline-tasks org-cycle-show-empty-lines org-optimize-window-after-visibility-change) org-todo-keywords '((sequence "TODO" "DOING" "|" "DONE")) org-confirm-elisp-link-function 'yes-or-no-p org-metadown-hook '(org-babel-pop-to-session-maybe) org-log-into-drawer t org-clock-out-hook '(org-clock-remove-empty-clock-drawer) )