On 2/19/17, Nicolas Goaziou <m...@nicolasgoaziou.fr> wrote: > I have trouble understanding the double quote above. Do you mean the > text below is inserted within the %(concat ...) or are these your > templates? In this case, which one produces the error?
thanks for asking about this. for clarity, let's do it from the beginning. [first please note that i am experiencing random results. sometimes it works fine but: 1] sometimes nothing shows up 2] sometimes as i will describe below 3] sometimes nothing shows up, but "Warning (emacs): Please update your org protocol handler to deal with new-style links." buffer pops up what i will describe is 2, which is the topic of this thread.] just now i selected the first two paragraphs of the quote of your email, and clicked the org-capture extension unicorn. i use this function: (defun alpha-org-protocol-string (link description region) (format "* x link %s description %s region %s " link description region)) the result of clicking on the unicorn: === ***** x link https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/rfjkj7op114w/?&th=15a580ccf5cb9d34&v=c description Gmail - %( in capture template region %(alpha-org-protocol-string "https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/rfjkj7op114w/?&th=15a580ccf5cb9d34&v=c" "Gmail - %( in capture template" "> with the new org maint code, i still occasionally get the literal string. %(alpha-org-protocol-string "https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/rfjkj7op114w/?&th=15a580ccf5cb9d34&v=c" "Gmail - %( in capture template" "> %(alpha-org-protocol-string "https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/h/rfjkj7op114w/?&th=15a580ccf5cb9d34&v=c" "Gmail - %( in capture template" "> it occurs when the region spans a blank line. === region should be what i selected. instead it is a garbled version of what i selected with the literal function call text. is this user error? the double quotes are as you see them. i did not add any. below are my templates. (add-to-list 'org-capture-templates `("L" "Protocol L for link" entry (file+headline ,org-default-notes-file "xyzzy-remember") ;; fixme perhaps i do not need the %i, if it is for no text "%(alpha-org-protocol-string \"%:link\" \"%:description\" \"%i\") L" :prepend t :immediate-finish t :jump-to-captured t)) ;; this seems to get called by org capture whether selection or not (add-to-list 'org-capture-templates `("p" "Protocol p" entry (file+headline ,org-default-notes-file "xyzzy-remember") "%(alpha-org-protocol-string \"%:link\" \"%:description\" \"%i\")" :prepend t :immediate-finish t :jump-to-captured t)) the org capture extension is set to p, so the second one should be the operative one. but what do i know? so perhaps %i is being set to some crazy value. i definitely do not understand any of this stuff.