I am using org-mode installed by the emacs package system: org-plus-contrib. I just updated it this morning:

Org mode version 9.2.6 (9.2.6-elpaplus @ /usr/share/emacs/27.0.50/lisp/org/)

I have no trouble, so far, running this template. If it is of interest, I am using this also in directories in my Dropbox folder, from my laptop and a desktop machine. I will investigate changes in the template parameters.

I am already thinking of another one, to capture a file listing and perhaps enable commenting. That last bit will stymy me. In fact it's all pretty much beyond me, for the moment. I saw a contributed org function to do something similar.

Anyway, for now, this template shows promise. It's already easier to save quick notes about an ongoing project. Before org-mode, I used steno.el, to good effect; org-mode, however, is lightyears beyond steno.

Thank you for the comments.

Alan Davis

On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 6:51 AM Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es> wrote:

>>> "AED" == Alan E Davis <lngndvs@gmail.com> writes:

> I have come up with something simple that works:
> ("X" "ChangeLog README" entry (file+datetree "./00_README.org") "* %?
> \n %U \n %f" :prepend t)

Thanks I tried this and I obtain

Deprecated date/weektree capture templates changed to ‘file+olp+datetree’.
org-datetree--find-create: Buffer is read-only: #<buffer README.org<org>>

That is why I have only absolute paths in my capture templates, but I
find them no appropriate in certain circumstances.

Any idea what is wrong here?

Uwe Brauer

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