On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 1:47 AM Eric S Fraga <esflists@gmail.com> wrote:

On Wednesday, 26 Sep 2018 at 13:11, Kaushal Modi wrote:
> I had been wondering for quite some time (about since 5 months :P) why
> my Org captures have stopped auto-saving.

This has been really annoying me for some time. Thanks for the code you've posted which I will try out. I use at least 2 instances of Emacs, 1 for gnus which often leads to capturing notes and tasks and the others for writing etc. Not having an automatic save can lead to problems.

I'd suggest reverting that commit.

Removing save-buffer from org-capture-finalize, makes the whole concept of Org Capture very unsafe (i.e. no guarantee that the captured date will be saved - unless the finalize hooks workaround is used). It feels like a bit more extra work is needed to make org capture do the "right thing". If the hooks are not configured, then there's a mental overhead of having to save all the capture target buffers manually.

@tumashu You can easily avoid saving of the capture target buffers on your phone by adding this to the emacs config just on your phone:

(defun advice/dont-save-during-org-capture (orig-fun &rest args)
"Make `save-buffer' do nothing during `org-capture-finalize'."
(cl-letf (((symbol-function #'save-buffer)
             (lambda ()
               (message "Skipping `save-buffer' in `org-capture-finalize'")
               nil)))
    (apply orig-fun args)))
(advice-add 'org-capture-finalize :around #'advice/dont-save-during-org-capture)

Above just makes save-buffer to do nothing, but *only* in org-capture-finalize.

Summary:

- Proposal to revert https://code.orgmode.org/bzg/org-mode/commit/b4422add3745c26ec3b2e11b8da425844b2e9d3d

- Use the above advice if you don't want to save buffer during org-capture.