On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 9:55 PM, Kyle Meyer <k...@kyleam.com> wrote: > Hello, > > John Hendy <jw.he...@gmail.com> writes: > >> When I do =C-c c= to try a capture example, it's trying to file it >> with respect to ~/org and I'm not sure why. Here's the capture section >> of dir/setup/example-config: >> >> (setq org-capture-templates >> '(("l" "log" entry (file+headline "./demo/org-demo_capture.org" "Log") >> "* %? \n%u " :clock-in t :clock-resume t) >> ("t" "task" entry (file+headline "./demo/org-demo_article.org" "Tasks") >> "* todo %? %^g\n%u" :prepend t) >> ("c" "clock" entry (file+datetree "./demo/org-demo_clocking.org") >> "* %?\n%u" :clock-in t :clock-keep t))) >> >> The capture buffer wants to create the directory ~/org/demo. > > The variable org-directory affects this: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > Documentation: > Directory with Org files. > This is just a default location to look for Org files. There is no need > at all to put your files into this directory. It is used in the > following situations: > > 1. When a capture template specifies a target file that is not an > absolute path. The path will then be interpreted relative to > ‘org-directory’ > 2. When the value of variable ‘org-agenda-files’ is a single file, any > relative paths in this file will be taken as relative to > ‘org-directory’. > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Thank you very much! That did it and let me run my "sandbox" org capture demonstration nicely. So I can fish for myself next time, did you happen to just know this relationship, or search the manuals for "capture"? I took a look at the templates manual page and simply say file+headline used, though with an absolute path. - http://orgmode.org/manual/Capture-templates.html#Capture-templates In any case, thanks again for the tip. John > > -- > Kyle