Re: [BUG] Invalid capture datetree capture templates (newly introduced) [9.7-pre (release_9.6.18-1145-g10d286 @ /home/jds6696/.emacs.d/straight/build/org/)]

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Tommy Kelly <tommy.kelly@verilab.com> writes:

> C) entry (file+olp+datetree "test-datetree.org" "H1 "H2")    ;;
> filename plus heading and sub-heading
>
> Then I'd expect A) to use a datetree rooted at the file top level; B)
> to use one underneath heading "* H1"; and C) to use one underneath **
> H2" (which itself is underneath "* H1").
> And in each case I'd expect it to create a new datetree at the
> specified location if one didn't already exist.
>
> HOWEVER, it looks like that can break if there is already one or more
> datetrees anywhere in the file AT A LEVEL BELOW THAT specified by the
> template.
> In that case, the position specified by the template is simply
> ignored. Instead, the captured item is filed at first occurring
> datetree of the above kind.
> To be clear, that's even if there is also a pre-existing datetree at
> the correct, template-specified location but further down the file.

Are you sure that what you describe is newly introduced?
I'd expect this exact behavior since forever, judging from how
`org-datetree--find-create' is implemented.
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