Oh, I'm familiar with the file variables and all, thanks for the tip.

Since the org-remember code is written to support files that are not in
org-mode as targets of remember items, it just seemed to me it shouldn't
then switch back to assuming it was an org mode file simply because the text
being inserted resembles a particular type of regexp.

(gotta remember to hit reply-all)

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 4:55 AM, Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de>wrote:

> 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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