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From: Giovanni Ridolfi <giovanni.ridolfi@yahoo.it>
Subject: Re: newlines in capture templates from the customize buffer
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:18:55 +0100
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suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I am having some trouble writing capture templates with newlines from
> the customise buffer. 
> From all the examples I see in the manual and
> Worg, it seems simply putting \n within the template string should
> work. 
No. You see the variable edited by hand, not what you get from the 
customize buffer.

> But entering a "\n" in the template escapes the "\n" when saving
> to file and the saved template ends up looking like this,
>
> "** %^{prompt|TODO|WInP} %? %^G\\n%^t"
>
> Entering a newline pressing [RET] works. But then in my init.el it is
> stored as a carriage return rather than "\n", making it ugly. 

If you don't like the <RET>
you can edit your init.el file and substitute <RET> with \n
by hand:

M-% C-q C-j \n


> Is there
> a way to enter newlines in the customise buffer which is saved as
> "\n"?
I don't think so.

cheers
Giovanni