From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: rpgoldman@sift.info
Cc: Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Re: Bug (?) in org-capture
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 08:48:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <435507E5-9E6E-44EE-8EA4-463549B8DBBB@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CB71E71.5020808@sift.info>
Hi Robert,
I cannot reproduce this error. If I set my default notes file to "~/
org//notes.org"
things seem to work just fine.
- Carsten
On Oct 14, 2010, at 5:14 PM, Robert Goldman wrote:
> On 10/14/10 Oct 14 -9:40 AM, Robert Goldman wrote:
>> I was trying to experiment for the first time using org-capture
>> together
>> with w3m today, and I get an error.
>>
>> I invoke org-capture, and was pleased to find that it built me a
>> buffer
>> just fine, and made an org link for the URL of the w3m buffer. So
>> far,
>> so good.
>>
>> Unfortunately, when I try to save the buffer, either with C-c C-c
>> or C-c
>> C-w, I get an error.
>>
>> The error is in org-capture-bookmark-last-stored-position. Here:
>>
>> (defun org-capture-bookmark-last-stored-position ()
>> "Bookmark the last-captured position."
>> (let* ((where (org-capture-get :position-for-last-stored 'local))
>> ....)
>>
>> WHERE gets bound to NIL, the return of ORG-CAPTURE-GET, causing an
>> error.
>>
>> I'm quite prepared to believe that I have this horribly
>> misconfigured,
>> since I really didn't configure it at all, but it's disappointing
>> that
>> the buffer creation works so well without configuration, but leaves
>> me
>> in this pickle. It's also disappointing that the refile command
>> doesn't
>> work --- any chance of hacking it so that it does something
>> sensible (I
>> was thinking involving interactive selection) when org-capture is not
>> yet configured?
>>
>> AFAICT the direct cause of the error is that org-capture-current-
>> plist
>> is NIL, and the 'local spec in this call means that we consult that
>> instead of org-capture-plist.
>>
>> At this point my ability to understand the code peters out, and I'm
>> afraid I don't have anything useful to say.
>
> Sorta never mind --- I figured out what the problem was. Somehow the
> default file for org-capture was ~/org//notes.org not ~/org/notes.org,
> so there was really a "file not found" error here.
>
> So this is, in a sense, user error.
>
> That said, if it's not too much trouble, maybe reporting a file not
> found error for this would be more helpful than crashing in this way.
>
> On the other hand, this might be tricky to find and handle, so maybe
> it's not worth the trouble.
>
> best,
> r
>
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-14 14:40 Bug (?) in org-capture Robert Goldman
2010-10-14 15:14 ` Robert Goldman
2010-10-15 6:48 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2010-10-15 19:23 ` Robert Goldman
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