bug#37890: 27.0.50; Org-mode: org-capture and final newline

bug#37890: 27.0.50; Org-mode: org-capture and final newline

[Michael Heerdegen]

Hello,

this happens quite often to me and scrambles my todo.org:

I want to capture an APPT with `org-capture'.  I the pop-up buffer to
edit the item I move the date to the second line and add text after the
date (personal preference).  That loses the final newline in
CAPTURE-todo.org.  As a result, the headline of the item following the
item to be inserted gets appended to the last line of the text:

** APPT Abc
   <2019-10-23 Mi>
text... ** APPT 8:30 Important Appointment

breaking the whole item.  The user should somehow be prevented from that
happening.

TIA,

Michael.


In GNU Emacs 27.0.50 (build 27, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.12)
 of 2019-10-23 built on drachen
Repository revision: 39ba44f18445c7759de5ac91ce25e53123c2abeb
Repository branch: master
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12004000
System Description: Debian GNU/Linux bullseye/sid

bug#37890: 27.0.50; Org-mode: org-capture and final newline

[Michael Heerdegen]

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> ** APPT Abc
>    <2019-10-23 Mi>
> text... ** APPT 8:30 Important Appointment

Note that this can also happen if you just paste something info the last
line of the capture buffer.  Bad.

Another way to damage your notes file: kill the capture buffer.  If you
realize that you should have hit C-c C-k instead, it's too late: you
have to revert the partial addition to the notes org file manually.

Killing the buffer should clean up automatically instead (using
`kill-buffer-hook' presumably).


Thanks,

Michael.

bug#37890: 27.0.50; Org-mode: org-capture and final newline

[Bastien]

Hi Michael,

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> this happens quite often to me and scrambles my todo.org:

This may have been fixed in latest Org; please check out 9.3.6 and
confirm if it is fixed, so that I can close this bug.

Thanks,

-- 
 Bastien

bug#37890: 27.0.50; Org-mode: org-capture and final newline

[Michael Heerdegen]

Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> writes:

> > this happens quite often to me and scrambles my todo.org:
>
> This may have been fixed in latest Org; please check out 9.3.6 and
> confirm if it is fixed, so that I can close this bug.

I'm using 9.3 from Emacs master, and it seems to be fixed there as well,
for already quite some time.  Has there been any related change in more
recent org versions that I should test?

Thanks,

Michael.

bug#37890: 27.0.50; Org-mode: org-capture and final newline

[Bastien]

Hello Michael,

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> > this happens quite often to me and scrambles my todo.org:
>>
>> This may have been fixed in latest Org; please check out 9.3.6 and
>> confirm if it is fixed, so that I can close this bug.
>
> I'm using 9.3 from Emacs master, and it seems to be fixed there as well,
> for already quite some time.

Thanks for confirming, I'm closing this now.

> Has there been any related change in more
> recent org versions that I should test?

Well, quite a few, you can read ORG-NEWS to see what you need to test:
https://code.orgmode.org/bzg/org-mode/raw/master/etc/ORG-NEWS

-- 
 Bastien