well, fwiw, i am still getting empty lines for capture buffers with a final newline and empty capture buffers. idk if htat helps by iutself. recent maint [new org version] emacs 25.
On 9/27/20, Samuel Wales <samolog...@gmail.com> wrote: > ... but i want to know what is expected. it sopunds like org is > intended to produce the desired result regardless. so i will messa > aroud more with my settings. > > i am limited in comput3er use so it might take a while for me to > produce anything liek an mwe. but i will check a few things. > > On 9/27/20, Samuel Wales <samolog...@gmail.com> wrote: >> hi nicolas, >> >> thanks, that helps to know that org adds a newline. this prevents the >> failure mode of corrupted headers. >> >> just to confirm, do you mean capture /templates/ [potentially >> verifiable by org] vs. /finalized buffers/? >> >> it sounds like you mean templates, because otherwise org just does >> whatever is necessary to create desired lines? >> >> the user can mess with the buffer, so might leave a trailing newline >> or not. might copy from a file that ensures trailing newline, or one >> that does not, etc. >> >> thus finalized buffers can contain anything. or nothing. >> >> at present, possibly due to my own errors, without the options >> specified explicitly, i get blank lines below the header if i finalize >> the buffer with a trailing newline, and blank lines below the target >> header if i capture with an empty buffer. in maint. >> >> >> On 9/27/20, Nicolas Goaziou <m...@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> Samuel Wales <samolog...@gmail.com> writes: >>> >>>> thank you. when i can, i will try explicitly setting all three to 0 >>>> to see if that prevents the unwanted newlines, in the buffer with >>>> newline on last line, and empty buffer, cases. >>>> >>>> the docstring says empty-lines defaults to 0, which is what i want. >>>> it does not say what the default for after and before are. >>>> >>>> it /sounds/ like capture is supposed to produce the desired number >>>> [and position] of empty lines regardless of whether the buffer is >>>> empty or there is or is not a trailing newline on the final line of >>>> hte buffer. is this more or less correct? >>> >>> I didn't read the whole thread, but a final newline is mandatory in all >>> capture templates, independently on the number of desired blank lines. >>> If such final newline is not provided, the capture mechanism will add >>> one. >>> >>> The only exception is about empty capture templates, which are left >>> as-is, i.e. a "final newline" is not added in that case. >>> >>> I don't know if that answers your question, but HTH. >>> >>> Regards, >>> -- >>> Nicolas Goaziou >>> >> >> >> -- >> The Kafka Pandemic >> >> Please learn what misopathy is. >> https://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com/2013/10/why-some-diseases-are-wronged.html >> > > > -- > The Kafka Pandemic > > Please learn what misopathy is. > https://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com/2013/10/why-some-diseases-are-wronged.html > -- The Kafka Pandemic Please learn what misopathy is. https://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com/2013/10/why-some-diseases-are-wronged.html
