From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Jere McDevitt <jere.mcdevitt@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Error when saving remember entries in non org-mode file types.
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:21:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9FDCE454-F2EA-4B52-9887-BBF3D0751B8E@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d0897c3b0906161625j6f1b661dr8de0805b12ff2e81@mail.gmail.com>
On Jun 17, 2009, at 1:25 AM, Jere McDevitt wrote:
> Org-mode version: 6.27a
>
> I configured org-remember-templates to use a file named
> "project.todo" to hold todo entries for me.
>
> (setq org-remember-templates
> ("Project" ?p "* TODO %?\n %u" "~/org/project.todo" bottom )))
>
> I hadn't added the .todo extension to the auto-mode-alist so when it
> was loaded to be written to by the org-remember-handler, it came up
> by default in fundamental-mode, not org-mode.
>
> This generates an error condition that I tracked down in the org-
> remember.el file to line 887 in the org-remember-handler function:
Yes, target files for remember templates must be in Org-mode.
That does make sense normally, because your TODO tasks
are Org nodes.
I would simply recommend to actually use a .org extension.
I you don't want to do that, instead of adding to auto-mode-alist,
you can start the file with
# -*- mode: org -*-
HTH
- Carsten
>
> ((not (org-mode-p))
> (if (eq heading 'top)
> (goto-char (point-min))
> (goto-char (point-max))
> (or (bolp) (newline)))
> (insert text-before-node-creation)
> .......
>
>
> The error is that text-before-node-creation apparently is a nil and
> the insert routine is generating an error because of it. This
> variable is set earlier in the handler at around line 845 but only
> if the text being inserted does not look like an org-outline-regexp:
>
> (unless (looking-at org-outline-regexp)
> ;; add a headline
> (setq text-before-node-creation (buffer-string))
>
> Because my template actually does look like an org-outline-regexp
> (it starts with "* TODO"), that variable is never set and because
> the buffer is not in org-mode, this code is triggered using the text-
> buffer-node-creation.
>
> The simple work around was to add .todo files to the auto-mode-alist
> (or I could have changed the template), but I thought I would post a
> note about it.
>
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2009-06-16 23:25 Error when saving remember entries in non org-mode file types Jere McDevitt
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