On 11/03/2022 01:00, Ignacio Casso wrote:
Max Nikulin writes:
On 10/03/2022 19:53, Ignacio Casso wrote:
For example, if we call this:
(let ((org-capture-templates
'(("d" "default" entry
(file+headline org-default-notes-file "Tasks")
"* %?"))))
(org-capture nil "d")))
It produces the error:
(error "No capture template referred to by \"d\" keys")
Ignacio, could you, please, try the following?
(custom-set-variables
'(org-capture-templates
'(("d" "default" entry
(file "/tmp/capture-test.org")
"* %?"))))
(org-capture nil "d")
That works, of course, but it's not suitable to my use case. The example
I have provided has been reduced from a larger function I wrote that
relies on org-capture functionality to create new entries in an org
file, using a template specific for that function which is not relevant
for any other Elisp code calling org-capture. Thus the function binds
locally and temporarily org-capture-templates, as I've seen other Elisp
code snippets do. If org-capture is already loaded it works just fine,
and I would expect it to work too when it is not and the function
triggers the autoload, but it doesn't.
Ignacio, I think, you can add (require 'org-capture) inside your
function just before `let' and it would work almost as lazy loading. I
am unsure if org-capture is the best approach in your case. Have you
considered yasnippet or Org specific functions to transform and to
generate content? Even changing arguments of the `org-capture' function
or introducing another function that has explicit argument with a
template might be better then marking the template list variable for
autoloading.
I have no particular opinion concerning adding autoload cookie to
`org-capture-templates'. Emacs has enough number of them, but Org has no
such custom variables. Arguments why autoload should be avoided:
info "(elisp) When to Autoload"
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/When-to-Autoload.html
Don’t autoload a user option just so that a user can set it.
The following thread related to Emacs core and linked from
https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/32859/autoloading-defcustoms-good-practice-or-not
:
Glenn Morris. Re: master f995fbd: * lisp/server.el (server-name): Add
autoload cookie. (Bug#23576) Thu, 19 May 2016 12:44:49 -0400
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-05/msg00415.html
Org-specific thread:
Achim Gratz. missing autoload cookies for defcustom? Sun, 09 Oct 2011
17:20:16 +0200 https://list.orgmode.org/87lisub39r.fsf@Rainer.invalid/T/#u
c.buhtz, I am sorry, despite `org-capture-templates' has the :set
attribute, this is not a really convincing example why
`custom-set-variables' should be used. The setter was added to ensure
compatibility with older template format and this example works with
`setq' as well.
