From: "George Taylor" <menemenetekelupharsin@gmx.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Cannot get capture to work on Emacs 24.3.1 - Org itself does work
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2015 22:54:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-df7fe388-3162-4698-a245-59930ce320e5-1434142470756@3capp-mailcom-bs01> (raw)
I cannot get Capture to work.
Summary:
I have successfully installed and used emacs on my laptop, and am happily using Org mode.
I cannot get Capture to work. I have edited my .emacs file, but I am getting an error when starting emacs, and C-c c does not work.
Detail:
I have installed
24.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601) of 2013-03-17 on MARVIN on my laptop running Windows XP (Japanese).
Org-mode works.
I edited my .emacs file per .../manual/Setting-up-capture.html#Setting-up-capture
by adding
(setq org-default-notes-file (concat org-directory "/notes.org"))
(define-key global-map "\C-cc" 'org-capture)
Now, when I start emacs normally, I get the warning:
...: An error occurred while loading `c:/home/.emacs':
Symbol's value as variable is void: org-directory
To ensure normal operation...
I restarted emacs by running
runemacs.exe --debug-init
and got the foolowing Backtrace:
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable org-directory)
(concat org-directory "/notes.org")
(setq org-default-notes-file (concat org-directory "/notes.org"))
eval-buffer(#<buffer *load*> nil "c:/home/.emacs" nil t) ; Reading at buffer position 1168
load-with-code-conversion("c:/home/.emacs" "c:/home/.emacs" t t)
load("~/.emacs" t t)
#[0 "\b\205\262 (and a lot of other code conversions that don't seem to copy and paste)
I have referred to the org manual, and read the FAQ. I do not see this problem addressed. I hope you can help me.
Why is the variable org-directory void?
Do I need to edit some file other than .emacs?
Is there something else I should do?
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