Re: .Re: Org Capture Template

[Arthur Miller]

daniela-spit@gmx.it writes:

>> Sent: Friday, November 27, 2020 at 7:51 AM
>> From: "Arthur Miller" <arthur.miller@live.com>
>> To: daniela-spit@gmx.it
>> Cc: "Help Gnu Emacs" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>> Subject: Re: .Re: Org Capture Template
>>
>> daniela-spit@gmx.it writes:
>>
>> > Have you tried it?  Am still getting "Invalid Capture Template".
>> Hah :-) Actually not; I just saw you were missing a parenthesis, wasn't
>> even looking at it; I am sorry:
>
> If you were doing it for the glory, it backfired.

Which? No; I saw it was missing the ending parenthesis;

The second one works; i tried it.

And yes, it is because of evaluation as Jean told you.

>> (setq org-capture-templates
>>
>>    `( ("t" "Todo" entry
>>        (file "~/Dokument/notes.org")
>>          ,(concat "* TODO %^{Heading}\n  Brief: %^{Brief}\n"
>>                  "Detail: %?\n"
>>                  "Entered: %T\n  Link: %a\n") )))
>>
>>
>>
>> >> Sent: Friday, November 27, 2020 at 6:34 AM
>> >> From: "Arthur Miller" <arthur.miller@live.com>
>> >> To: daniela-spit@gmx.it
>> >> Cc: "Help Gnu Emacs" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
>> >> Subject: Re: Org Capture Template
>> >>
>> >> daniela-spit@gmx.it writes:
>> >>
>> >> > I am writing an Org Capture Template.  But I want to use concat
>> >> > to keep indentation.  But it is giving me "Invalid capture template".
>> >> >
>> >> > (setq org-capture-templates
>> >> >
>> >> >    '( ("t" "Todo" entry
>> >> >          (file "~/02history/rcl.org")
>> >> >          (concat "* TODO %^{Heading}\n  Brief: %^{Brief}\n"
>> >> >                  "Detail: %?\n"
>> >> >                  "Entered: %T\n  Link: %a\n") ))
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >> > -------
>> >> >
>> >> > (setq org-capture-templates
>> >> >
>> >> >    '( ("t" "Todo" entry
>> >> >          (file "~/02history/rcl.org")
>> >> > "* TODO %^{Heading}\n  Brief: %^{Brief}\n
>> >> > Detail: %?\n
>> >> > Entered: %T\n  Link: %a\n") ))
>> >> >
>> >> > -------
>> >>
>> >> This one works:
>> >>
>> >> (setq org-capture-templates
>> >>
>> >>    '( ("t" "Todo" entry
>> >>          (file "~/02history/rcl.org")
>> >>          (concat "* TODO %^{Heading}\n  Brief: %^{Brief}\n"
>> >>                  "Detail: %?\n"
>> >>                  "Entered: %T\n  Link: %a\n") )))
>> >>
>> >> I suggest you put this into your init file:
>> >>
>> >> (setq show-paren-style 'expression)
>> >> (show-paren-mode t)
>> >>
>> >> It will be much easier to see when you miss a parenthesis next time if
>> >> you let Emacs match parenthesis for you and syntax colour entire
>> >> expressions between matching parenthesis.
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>