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?