Re: Error saving remember item in non org-mode buffer

[Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de>]

As Carsten posted yesterday:


http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Specifying-File-Variables.html


First line of project.todo:


 -*- mode: org-mode; -*-


  Sebastian


Jere McDevitt <jere.mcdevitt@gmail.com> writes:
> Org-mode version: 6.27a
>
> I configured org-remember-templates to use a file named "project.todo" to
> hold todo entries for me.
>
> (setq org-remember-templates
>         ("Project" ?p "* TODO %?\n %u"  "~/org/project.todo" bottom )))
>
> I hadn't added the .todo extension to the auto-mode-alist so when it was
> loaded to be written to by the org-remember-handler, it came up by default
> in fundamental-mode, not org-mode.
>
> This generates an error condition that I tracked down in the org-remember.el
> file to line 887 in org-remember-handler:
>
>  ((not (org-mode-p))
>         (if (eq heading 'top)
>             (goto-char (point-min))
>           (goto-char (point-max))
>           (or (bolp) (newline)))
>         (insert text-before-node-creation)
>                   .......
>
>
> The error is that text-before-node-creation apparently is a nil and the
> insert routine is generating an error because of it.  This variable is set
> earlier in the handler at around line 845 but only if the text being
> inserted does not look like an org-outline-regexp:
>
>   (unless (looking-at org-outline-regexp)
>     ;; add a headline
>     (setq text-before-node-creation (buffer-string))
>
> Because my template actually does look like an org-outline-regexp (it starts
> with "* TODO"), that variable is never set and because the buffer is not in
> org-mode, this code is triggered using the text-buffer-node-creation.
>
> The simple work around was to add .todo files to the auto-mode-alist (or I
> could have changed the template), but I thought I would post a note about
> the problem.
>
> Jere
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