Re: org-capture adds newline(s) when it should not

[Noorul Islam <noorul@noorul.com>]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Carsten Dominik
<carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Oct 26, 2010, at 6:29 AM, Noorul Islam wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Carsten Dominik
>> <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Oct 25, 2010, at 1:58 PM, Noorul Islam wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Noorul Islam <noorul@noorul.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Marcel van der Boom <marcel@hsdev.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm in the process of migrating from org-remember to org-capture.
>>>>>> Pretty easy going so far, but it seems org-capture adds newlines,
>>>>>> which
>>>>>> I think it should not do.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> My (test) capture-template is:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> (("t" "Todo" entry
>>>>>>  (file "~/.outlet/GTD.org")
>>>>>>  "* TODO %?" :prepend t :empty-lines 0)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> with the intention of inserting the captured task on the
>>>>>> first line of the file ~/.outlet/GTD.org. What happens when I capture
>>>>>> an task is this:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <beginning of file>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> * TODO Captured task
>>>>>>
>>>>>> <original first line of file here>
>>>>>> ....
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Both before and after the task is a newline. Also, when capturing and
>>>>>> cancelling the capture with C-c C-k the newlines remain whereas the
>>>>>> task is removed.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm using the latest git version with emacs 24.0.50.1 on Ubuntu 10.10
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I do not have Emacs 24 as of now.
>>>>>
>>>>> With the same template I am not able to re-create this on
>>>>>
>>>>> Org-mode version 7.01trans (release_7.01h.832.gf7094)
>>>>> GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.12)
>>>>>  of 2010-01-30 on noorul
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On emacs 24 I am able to re-create the problem Marcel reported.
>>>
>>> I find that puzzling.  What might have changed in Emacs 24 to cause such
>>> differences?  I do not use Emacs 24 on a day-to-day basis yet.
>>>
>>
>> On emacs 24 (newline 0) inserts a new line which I think is incorrect.
>
> Sounds like a but to me too.
> For now I am working around this in the latest git version.
>
> Marcel, this should be fixed.  Could you please submit a bug report
> to Emacs 24, stating that (newline 0) does insert a newline?
>

I filed a bug report.

Thank you!
Noorul