Re: Capture aborts after selecting template

[Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>]

Felix <felixfcaf@gmail.com> writes:

> I am using GNU Emacs 23.1.1 with org-mode version 7.7. I want to use C-c c t to
> capture a task and send it to ~/todo.org as defined in the org-capture-template
>  below. On pressing C-c c, the Org Select buffer opens but when I hit t, I get
> the error message "Capture abort: (void-function nil)" and nothing gets written
> to todo.org. The relevant lines from my
> .emacs and a backtrace from uncompiled code are shown below.  Please help me fix
> this.  
>
> .EMACS
> (define-key global-map "\C-cc" 'org-capture)
> (setq org-directory "~/")
>
> (setq org-capture-templates
>       (quote 
>       (("t" "Todo" entry (file+headline "~/todo.org" "Tasks")
>              "* TODO %?\n  %i\n  %a")
>         ("j" "Journal" entry (file+datetree "~/journal.org")
>              "* %?\nEntered on %U\n  %i\n  %a"))))
>
> BACKTRACE (Although I followed the instructions carefully, my backtrace still
> has some byte code that I couldn't paste here.)
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function nil)
>   nil()
>   run-hooks(text-mode-hook outline-mode-hook org-mode-hook)
>   apply(run-hooks (text-mode-hook outline-mode-hook org-mode-hook))

Hi Felix,

What are your values for text-mode-hook, outline-mode-hook, and
org-mode-hook?

From your backtrace it looks like invoking one of these hooks is the
problem.

Regards,
Bernt