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

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

[Calvin Beck]

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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!

Furthermore, I feel like this conflicts with some editing habits. If I
want to edit the last part of a buffer I hit `M->` and start typing. I
think this is a pretty common idiom, but this conflicts badly with
org-capture.

Thanks! I hope there is some kind of fix possible.

Emacs  : GNU Emacs 26.1 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
 of 2018-09-29
Package: Org mode version 9.1.14 (9.1.14-9-g131531-elpa @ /home/calvin/.emacs.d/elpa/org-20181105/)

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

[Nicolas Goaziou]

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

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

[hobbes]

Aha! Finally figured out how to get this installed over the MELPA version.

Yes, this is fixed in the development branch. I am so happy about this. I hope this is released in a stable version soon, because right now org-capture is really destructive otherwise.

Thanks!

Nicolas Goaziou writes:

> 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,


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