Re: [Orgmode] org-capture adds newline(s) when it should not

[Noorul Islam]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Noorul Islam <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Marcel van der Boom <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm in the process of migrating from org-remember to org-capture.
>> Pretty easy going so far, but it seems org-capture adds newlines, which
>> I think it should not do.
>>
>> My (test) capture-template is:
>>
>> (("t" "Todo" entry
>>  (file "~/.outlet/GTD.org")
>>  "* TODO %?" :prepend t :empty-lines 0)
>>
>> with the intention of inserting the captured task on the
>> first line of the file ~/.outlet/GTD.org. What happens when I capture
>> an task is this:
>>
>> <beginning of file>
>>
>> * TODO Captured task
>>
>> <original first line of file here>
>> ....
>>
>> Both before and after the task is a newline. Also, when capturing and
>> cancelling the capture with C-c C-k the newlines remain whereas the
>> task is removed.
>>
>> I'm using the latest git version with emacs 24.0.50.1 on Ubuntu 10.10
>>
>> Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug?
>>
>
> I do not have Emacs 24 as of now.
>
> With the same template I am not able to re-create this on
>
> Org-mode version 7.01trans (release_7.01h.832.gf7094)
> GNU Emacs 23.1.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.12)
>  of 2010-01-30 on noorul
>

On emacs 24 I am able to re-create the problem Marcel reported.

Thanks and Regards
Noorul