[O] Cannot get capture to work on Emacs 24.3.1 - Org itself does work

2015-06-12 Thread George Taylor
I cannot get Capture to work.

Summary:
I have successfully installed and used emacs on my laptop, and am happily using 
Org mode.
I cannot get Capture to work. I have edited my .emacs file, but I am getting an 
error when starting emacs, and C-c c does not work.

Detail:
I have installed 

24.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601) of 2013-03-17 on MARVIN on my laptop running 
Windows XP (Japanese).

Org-mode works.

I edited my .emacs file per 
.../manual/Setting-up-capture.html#Setting-up-capture
by adding

(setq org-default-notes-file (concat org-directory /notes.org))
 (define-key global-map \C-cc 'org-capture)

Now, when I start emacs normally, I get the warning:

...: An error occurred while loading `c:/home/.emacs':

Symbol's value as variable is void: org-directory

To ensure normal operation...

I restarted emacs by running 

runemacs.exe --debug-init

and got the foolowing Backtrace:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable org-directory)
  (concat org-directory /notes.org)
  (setq org-default-notes-file (concat org-directory /notes.org))
  eval-buffer(#buffer  *load* nil c:/home/.emacs nil t)  ; Reading at 
buffer position 1168
  load-with-code-conversion(c:/home/.emacs c:/home/.emacs t t)
  load(~/.emacs t t)
  #[0 \205\262 (and a lot of other code conversions that don't seem to copy 
and paste)

I have referred to the org manual, and read the FAQ. I do not see this problem 
addressed. I hope you can help me.

Why is the variable org-directory void?
Do I need to edit some file other than .emacs?
Is there something else I should do?



Re: [O] Cannot get capture to work on Emacs 24.3.1 - Org itself does work

2015-06-12 Thread Myles English

Hello George,

George Taylor writes:

 I cannot get Capture to work.

 Summary:
 I have successfully installed and used emacs on my laptop, and am happily 
 using Org mode.
 I cannot get Capture to work. I have edited my .emacs file, but I am getting 
 an error when starting emacs, and C-c c does not work.

 Detail:
 I have installed 

 24.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt6.1.7601) of 2013-03-17 on MARVIN on my laptop running 
 Windows XP (Japanese).

 Org-mode works.

 I edited my .emacs file per 
 .../manual/Setting-up-capture.html#Setting-up-capture
 by adding

try this here, before the setq for org-default-notes-file below:

(setq org-directory c:/home/yadda/yadda)

or if you have already started emacs you can put the cursor after the
last bracket and hold down Ctl and press x then e to evaluate it.  Then
do the same for the line below that sets org-default-notes-file.  You
can check if the variable has been set properly by pressing Ctl-h v
then typing org-directory.

Myles

 (setq org-default-notes-file (concat org-directory /notes.org))
  (define-key global-map \C-cc 'org-capture)

 Now, when I start emacs normally, I get the warning:

 ...: An error occurred while loading `c:/home/.emacs':

 Symbol's value as variable is void: org-directory

 To ensure normal operation...

 I restarted emacs by running 

 runemacs.exe --debug-init

 and got the foolowing Backtrace:

 Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable org-directory)
   (concat org-directory /notes.org)
   (setq org-default-notes-file (concat org-directory /notes.org))
   eval-buffer(#buffer  *load* nil c:/home/.emacs nil t)  ; Reading at 
 buffer position 1168
   load-with-code-conversion(c:/home/.emacs c:/home/.emacs t t)
   load(~/.emacs t t)
   #[0 \205\262 (and a lot of other code conversions that don't seem to copy 
 and paste)

 I have referred to the org manual, and read the FAQ. I do not see this 
 problem addressed. I hope you can help me.

 Why is the variable org-directory void?
 Do I need to edit some file other than .emacs?
 Is there something else I should do?