Re: my capture template generates a literal "%?"

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>]

Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> wrote:

> G <gsqual@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am using Emacs 24.1 in Win7 (64bit) and Org 7.8.11.
> > I would like to have a capture template that just puts me at the end
> > of my journal in plain text (although date tree) after a custom time
> > stamp (e.g. 09:13). I tried the following
> >     ("p" "Plain Journal" plain (file+datetree
> > "C:/Users/Geralb/Documents/privat/org/MyAgenda.org")
> >          "%<%H:%M>\n\n%?"
> >      :unnarrowed t :empty-lines 1)
> > 
> > But in this template a literal %? is written and point is thereafter.
> > 
> > I tried another template
> >     ("e" "Entry Journal" entry (file+datetree
> > "C:/Users/Geralb/Documents/privat/org/MyAgenda.org")
> >          "* Um %U von %a\n\n%?\n"
> >      :empty-lines 1 :unnarrowed t)
> > 
> > And this seems to work, but it's not what I would like to have.
> > 
> > Did I write the template wrong?
> > 
> 
> I don't think so. I can reproduce it and I think it is a bug: %? does
> not seem to be interpreted in the first case, it is interpreted in the
> second case, but I don't know what causes the difference.
> 

D'oh: plain type just inserts things literally. Need more coffee.

Nick