Invalid capture template with pull of Org 7.8.03?

Invalid capture template with pull of Org 7.8.03?

[Damon Haley]

Hi I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction
because one of my Org capture templates, that I use to feed questions to
myself (for later use with org-drill) just broke with the most recent
bzr pull of emacs.

Now, when I try to use the capture template, I only get this header in
my target org file.

** Invalid capture template

I'm on the 24.0.92.1 version of emacs which ships with Org 7.8.03.

Here's the template, which I stole from:
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-drill.html

(add-to-list 'org-capture-templates
              '
              ("W"
               "Capture web snippet"
               entry
               (file+headline "~/git/org/learn-emacs.org" "Emacs mastery")
               ,(concat "* Fact: '%:description'        :"
                        (format "%s" org-drill-question-tag)
                        ":\n:PROPERTIES:\n:DATE_ADDED: %u\n:SOURCE_URL: 
%c\n:END:\n\n%i\n%?\n")
               :empty-lines 1
               :immediate-finish t))

Is there any obvious reason this template would break?

I know I could read the capture documentation further but I don't have a
few hours to spend on this right now (plus I'm extremely beginner with
lisp). But I'm pretty sure it just broke with a recent pull of emacs
without me changing any other settings.

Thanks for any help,

Damon

p.s. Here's the complete config that I used to try to debug the problem.

(require 'org-install)
(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.\\(org\\|org_archive\\|txt\\)$" . 
org-mode))
(global-set-key "\C-ca" 'org-agenda)
(global-set-key "\C-cb" 'org-iswitchb)
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c r") 'org-capture)

;; Capture templates for: TODO tasks, Notes, appointments, phone calls, 
and org-protocol
   (setq org-capture-templates
       (quote (("t" "todo" entry (file "~/git/org/refile.org")
                "* TODO %?\n%U\n%a\n  %i" :clock-in t :clock-resume t)
               ("n" "note" entry (file "~/git/org/refile.org")
                "* %? :NOTE:\n%U\n%a\n  %i" :clock-in t :clock-resume t)
               ("j" "Journal" entry (file+datetree "~/git/org/diary.org")
                "* %?\n%U\n  %i" :clock-in t :clock-resume t)
               ("w" "org-protocol" entry (file "~/git/org/refile.org")
                "* TODO Review %c\n%U\n  %i" :immediate-finish t)
               ("p" "Phone call" entry (file "~/git/org/refile.org")
                "* PHONE %? :PHONE:\n%U" :clock-in t :clock-resume t)
               ("h" "Habit" entry (file "~/git/org/refile.org")
                "* NEXT %?\n%U\n%a\nSCHEDULED: %t 
.+1d/3d\n:PROPERTIES:\n:STYLE: habit\n:REPEAT_TO_STATE: NEXT\n:END:\n  
%i"))))

(add-to-list 'org-capture-templates
            '
            ("W"
             "Capture web snippet"
             entry
             (file+headline "~/git/org/learn-emacs.org" "Emacs mastery")
             ,(concat "* Fact: '%:description'        :"
                      (format "%s" org-drill-question-tag)
                      ":\n:PROPERTIES:\n:DATE_ADDED: %u\n:SOURCE_URL: 
%c\n:END:\n\n%i\n%?\n")
             :empty-lines 1
             :immediate-finish t))

Re: Invalid capture template with pull of Org 7.8.03?

[Nick Dokos]

Damon Haley <news@vinylisland.org> wrote:

> Hi I was wondering if someone could point me in the right direction
> because one of my Org capture templates, that I use to feed questions to
> myself (for later use with org-drill) just broke with the most recent
> bzr pull of emacs.
> 

Probably not - see below.

> Now, when I try to use the capture template, I only get this header in
> my target org file.
> 
> ** Invalid capture template
> 
> I'm on the 24.0.92.1 version of emacs which ships with Org 7.8.03.
> 
> Here's the template, which I stole from:
> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-drill.html
> 
> (add-to-list 'org-capture-templates
              vvv
>              '    <<<< THIS SHOULD BE A BACKQUOTE
              ^^^   
>              ("W"
>               "Capture web snippet"
>               entry
>               (file+headline "~/git/org/learn-emacs.org" "Emacs mastery")
>               ,(concat "* Fact: '%:description'        :"
>                        (format "%s" org-drill-question-tag)
>                        ":\n:PROPERTIES:\n:DATE_ADDED: %u\n:SOURCE_URL:
> %c\n:END:\n\n%i\n%?\n")
>               :empty-lines 1
>               :immediate-finish t))
> 
> Is there any obvious reason this template would break?

You are quoting the entry but including a , before the concat. That
indicates that instead of the quote ', you need to use a backquote ` to
allow the comma to evaluate the (concat ...)  expression at definition
time.

I checked the webpage you refer to and there is a backquote there, so I
can only surmise that you changed it by mistake recently.

Nick

Re: Invalid capture template with pull of Org 7.8.03?

[Damon Haley]

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

> You are quoting the entry but including a , before the concat. That
> indicates that instead of the quote ', you need to use a backquote ` to
> allow the comma to evaluate the (concat ...)  expression at definition
> time.
>
> I checked the webpage you refer to and there is a backquote there, so I
> can only surmise that you changed it by mistake recently.
>

Thanks Nick.

You're probably right that I changed it some time ago and thought it was
working, but it wasn't.

Glad to have it working again.

Damon

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