Re: Alternate format for datetree

[Ian Barton <lists@manor-farm.org>]

On 29/08/12 15:25, John Hendy wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 2:49 AM, Ian Barton <lists@manor-farm.org> wrote:
>> On 28/08/12 13:50, Nick Dokos wrote:
>>>
>>> Ian Barton <lists@wilkesley.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I would like to use something like this. However, using a recent git
>>>> checkout of org mode and the following simple template from the
>>>> original list message:
>>>>
>>>> ("u"
>>>>            "Test"
>>>>            entry
>>>>            (file+headline "~/test.org"
>>>>                           ,(format "%s %s"
>>>>                                    (format-time-string "%B")
>>>>                                    (format-time-string "%Y"))))
>>>> I get the following error:
>>>>
>>>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp (\, (format
>>>> "%s %s" (format-time-string "%B") (format-time-string "%Y"))))
>>>>     regexp-quote((\, (format "%s %s" (format-time-string "%B")
>>>> (format-time-string "%Y"))))
>>>>     org-capture-set-target-location()
>>>>     org-capture(nil)
>>>>     call-interactively(org-capture nil nil)
>>>>
>>>> I also get the same error from John Hendy's template. Is this a bug in
>>>> recent versions of org, or is there an error in the template lisp? I
>>>> have tried doing a git bisect, but can only go back a few commits, as
>>>> my config now includes  several things that have only recently been
>>>> added to org.
>>>>
>>>
>>> You are missing the backquote:
>>>
>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>>>    `("u"
>>>             "Test"
>>>             entry
>>>             (file+headline "~/test.org"
>>>                            ,(format "%s %s"
>>>                                     (format-time-string "%B")
>>>                                     (format-time-string "%Y"))))
>>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>>
>>> Nick
>>>
>> Thanks Nick. Hwever with the following minimal template, from the OP, I
>> still get the error:
>>
>> ;; org-capture settings.
>> (setq org-capture-templates
>> `(("t" "test" entry
>> (file+headline "~/file.org"
>> ,(format "%s"
>> (format-time-string "%m")))
>> ,(format "** %s \n*** %s-%s \n**** [%s-%s-%s %s %s:%s] "
>> (format-time-string "%d")
>> (format-time-string "%Y")
>> (format-time-string "%A")
>> (format-time-string "%Y")
>> (format-time-string "%m")
>> (format-time-string "%d")
>> (format-time-string "%a")
>> (format-time-string "%H")
>> (format-time-string "%M"))
>> )))
>
> Odd. I just copied and pasted this into my .emacs and commented out my
> actual capture templates section entirely, leaving only this and it
> works as expected.
>
> (Just saw Nick's response as well and was going to both try and
> suggest similar with a minimal .emacs).
>
>

Thanks both. I'll try with a minimal emacs and post the results. 
However, it may be a day or two as I am currently in the far West of 
Ireland with very variable Internet connections
!

Ian.