Dear Org users, There's a bug with the checkitem type org-capture-templates.
To reproduce: 1) Choose an org file with the headline "Test list", e.g., execute: $ cat > ~/org-capture-bugreport.org * Test list [/] ^C 2) Add the following two templates to your org-capture-templates: ("b" "Demonstrate a bug in capture templates" checkitem (file "~/org-capture-bugreport.org" "Test list") "there should be '[ ]' at the beginning of this item, but there isn't." :immediate-finish t) ("v" "Demonstrate a bug in capture templates" checkitem (file "~/org-capture-bugreport.org" "Test list") "[ ] This is how it should behave" :immediate-finish t) 3) org-capture b and org-capture v I expected the 'b' option to add a checkbox item under "Test list", but instead it only adds an item. The 'v' option behaves as I expect from 'b', but I had to add the checkbox manually. Below is a patch fixing this issue. (This is my first patch to Org, I'm happy to fix any mistakes. Yours, Ohad. >From 8a09dd1e6aea78551d2958beebf88156ce54e774 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ohad Kammar <ohad.kam...@cl.cam.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 09:43:45 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] org-capture.el: Implemented checkitem capture type org-capture.el (org-capture-place-item): Add check-box if appropriate. Pre-patch, the checkitem and item types behave exactly the same, rather than inserting a checkbox. Fix by Simon Castellan and Ohad Kammar. TINYCHANGE --- lisp/org-capture.el | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/lisp/org-capture.el b/lisp/org-capture.el index 9e33d25..365d7c5 100644 --- a/lisp/org-capture.el +++ b/lisp/org-capture.el @@ -1094,7 +1094,7 @@ may have been stored before." (setq txt (org-remove-indentation txt)) ;; Make sure this is indeed an item (unless (string-match (concat "\\`" (org-item-re)) txt) - (setq txt (concat "- " + (setq txt (concat "- " (if (eq (org-capture-get :type) 'checkitem) "[ ] " "") (mapconcat 'identity (split-string txt "\n") "\n ")))) ;; Set the correct indentation, depending on context -- 1.7.9.5