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From: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: my capture template generates a literal "%?"
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 11:49:34 +0200
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Hi,

Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:

> D'oh^2: everything else is interpreted, so why not %? ?
>
> The problem seems to be in org-capture-place-plain-text: the insertion
> of the text happens like this
>
> ,----
> |     ...
> |     (setq beg (point))
> |     (insert txt)
> |     (org-capture-empty-lines-after 1)
> |     (org-capture-position-for-last-stored beg)
> |     (setq end (point))
> |     (org-capture-mark-kill-region beg (1- end))
> |     (org-capture-narrow beg (1- end))
> |     (if (re-search-forward "%\\?" end t) (replace-match ""))))
> `----
>
> but it seesm that just before the re-search-forward, point is at
> end, not at beg, so the search is fruitless. We could search backwards
> to beg instead (but what is the semantics of multiple %? markers in the
> template?), or we could just (goto-char beg) before the search.

There was indeed a problem here, I just fixed it.

Thanks for the directions,

-- 
 Bastien