Jere McDevitt <
jere.mcdevitt@gmail.com> writes:
> 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 org-remember-handler:
>
> ((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
> the problem.
>
> Jere