On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 3:13 PM Haider Rizvi <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm getting the following error, when trying to do an org-capture.
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Invalid file location: nil")
> signal(error ("Invalid file location: nil"))
> error("Invalid file location: %S" nil)
> org-capture-expand-file((concat org-directory "inbox-gtd.org"))
> org-capture-target-buffer((concat org-directory "inbox-gtd.org"))
> org-capture-set-target-location()
> org-capture(nil)
>
> My org-capture-templates is set as follows for ages:
> (setq org-capture-templates
> '(("t" "Todo" entry (file+headline (concat org-directory "
> inbox-gtd.org") "Tasks")
>
Org 9.1 onwards, bare sexp's are now allowed in the template.
>From ORG-NEWS:
*** ~org-capture-templates~ no longer accepts S-expressions as file names
Since functions are allowed there, a straightforward way to migrate
is to turn, e.g.,
: (file (sexp))
into
: (file (lambda () (sexp)))
Reading up org-capture-expand-file, it seems org-directory is
> prepended automatically,
correct
> but it used to work fine in the
> past. Flipping back to the older code for org-capture-expand-file
> works fine. So I'd say this is a bug!
>
As mentioned above, this is expected.
--
Kaushal Modi
