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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: org-mode `org-capture-templates' %(sexp) must return string
 restriction
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2013 09:11:15 +0200
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To: Oleh <ohwoeowho@gmail.com>
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Hi Oleh,

please provide a patch, I like the proposed change.

- Carsten

On 26.7.2013, at 09:09, Oleh <ohwoeowho@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Is this restriction really necessary?
> This results in code like:
> 
> (setq
> org-capture-templates
> '(("e" "elisp todo"
>    entry
>    (file+headline (concat org.d "gtd.org") "Tasks")
>    "* TODO %(progn (org-set-tags-to \"ELISP\") \"\")%^{Brief
> Description}\n  Added: %U  %i\n  %?\n")))
> 
> I think it should be fine to just return nil. That would be equivalent
> to the empty string.
> Here's the same code if returning nil would be acceptable:
> 
> (setq
> org-capture-templates
> '(("e" "elisp todo"
>    entry
>    (file+headline (concat org.d "gtd.org") "Tasks")
>    "* TODO %(org-set-tags-to \"ELISP\")%^{Brief Description}\n
> Added: %U  %i\n  %?\n")))
> 
> Any opinions on this?
> 
> regards,
> Oleh
>