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?