Re: empty lines in datetree capture templates

[Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com>]

Hi Carsten,

On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:58:01 +0100
Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> On Jan 9, 2011, at 3:31 PM, David Maus wrote:
> 
> > At Tue, 28 Dec 2010 00:50:00 -0800,
> > Suvayu Ali wrote:
> >> 	("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.
> 

Thank you for catching this, don't know how I missed that.

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

Yes I agree and I tried that, but customise doesn't handle newlines very
well. I would prefer the newlines show up as \n rather than actual
newlines in my custom-set-variables. I don't mind editing it later to
fix it either. But when I customise some other variable and save,
customize saves it again with newlines instead of keeping my edited
value with \n.

> Best wishes
> 

Thanks

> - Carsten

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