Re: Bug: Capture problems with newlines [9.1.14 (9.1.14-9-g131531-elpa @ /home/calvin/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20181105/)]

[Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>]

Hello,

Calvin Beck <hobbes@seas.upenn.edu> writes:

> I have this problem where I have a capture template like this:
>
>> ("t" "Todo" entry (file+headline "~/org/todo.org" "Tasks")
>>    "* TODO %?\n   SCHEDULED: %t\n   %a\n")
>
> And then if I have another heading under Tasks...
>
>> * Tasks
>> * HEADING2
>
> Then when capturing a todo entry, if I delete the last line I get something like...
>
>> * Tasks
>> ** TODO
>>    SCHEDULED: <2018-11-05 Mon>
>>    link* HEADING2
>
> And similarly, if I edit the last line in the capture template I get...
>
>> * Tasks
>> ** TODO
>>    SCHEDULED: <2018-11-05 Mon>
>>    link
>> the stuff that I added at the end of my capture template* HEADING2
>
> This is counter intuitive, as you expect the capture to be isolated from
> the other headings. Additionally, it's not obvious that you are messing
> up other headings when you are using org-capture, so you can end up
> losing tasks and headings, which seems like a very bad behaviour!

Could you test again with development version? I think it was fixed
recently.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Goaziou