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Felix
Felix

Reputation: 77

Capture fails in emacs org-mode

I am using GNU Emacs 23.1.1 with org-mode version 7.7 I want to use C-c c t to capture a task and send it to ~/todo.org as defined in the org-capture-template below. On pressing C-c c, the Org Select buffer opens but when I hit t, I get the error message Capture abort: (void-function nil) and nothing gets written to todo.org. The relevant lines from my .emacs are shown below. Please help me fix this.

(define-key global-map "\C-cc" 'org-capture)

(setq org-directory "~/")

(setq org-capture-templates

(("t" "Todo" entry (file+headline "~/todo.org" "Tasks")
             "* TODO %?\n  %i\n  %a")

("j" "Journal" entry (file+datetree "~/journal.org")
             "* %?\nEntered on %U\n  %i\n  %a")))

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2431

Answers (1)

Jonathan Leech-Pepin
Jonathan Leech-Pepin

Reputation: 7884

You need to quote your list of capture templates. If you change the relevant section as follows it should work.

(setq org-capture-templates
      (quote 
       (("t" "TODO" entry
        [...]
        "* %?\nEntered on %U\n %i\n %a"))))

Make sure you remember to include the closing ) at the end or you'll end up with unbalanced parentheses.

Upvotes: 3

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