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From: Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
Subject: Re: Bug: Clipboard history is empty when using %^C in capture
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Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2017 14:21:11 +0200
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To: Allen Li <darkfeline@felesatra.moe>
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Hello,

Allen Li <darkfeline@felesatra.moe> writes:

> Using the %^C expansion in a capture template brings up a minibuffer
> prompt to read/select a clipboard value, but there are no values to
> select from.
>
> The relevant code is in the function org-capture-fill-template.
>
>  ("C"
>   (cond
>    ((= (length clipboards) 1) (insert (car clipboards)))
>    ((> (length clipboards) 1)
>     (insert (read-string "Clipboard/kill value: "
>                          (car clipboards)
>                          '(clipboards . 1)
>                          (car clipboards))))))
>
> It looks like the intention is to put the list of possible clipboard
> values into the minibuffer history for read-string, but in practice I
> get an error saying the history is empty.
>
> I suspect that the problem is that clipboard is lexically bound, and
> since read-string takes a symbol for the history, it cannot get the
> lexical value for clipboards from the symbol argument.

Thank you for the report.

I think I fixed it in maint. Could you confirm it?

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou