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[O] Capture w/ timestamp does not include current timestamp
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Ken Mankoff |
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[O] Capture w/ timestamp does not include current timestamp |
Date: |
Wed, 23 Aug 2017 08:16:27 +0200 |
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mu4e 0.9.18; emacs 25.2.1 |
Hi List,
I'm not sure if this is a bug or not - it seems to be, but it has been
discussed on the list[1] (and elswhere[2]) and not fixed, and I wonder if that
is because nobody explicitly called it out as a bug. At a minimum, I think it
is a documentation bug.
A capture template with %^T or %^U will prompt for date and time, but if I hit
ENTER without manually typing a time, the present time (shown in the prompt) is
dropped, and only a date is used in the capture.
This is different behavior than, for example =org-time-stamp= or
=org-time-stamp-inactive= run with a prefix argument (e.g. "C-u C-c C-.").
Without a time prompt (i.e. %^t or %^u), I can still manually enter a time and
it works. So the only benefit of %^T or %^U is that the current time is
displayed in the prompt, but I still have to manually type it out? This seems
inefficient, hence I think this is a bug.
If the behavior is correct, the following doc strings should probably be
updated:
%t Time stamp, date only. The time stamp is the current time,
except when called from agendas with ‘M-x org-agenda-capture’ or
with ‘org-capture-use-agenda-date’ set.
%T Time stamp as above, with date and time.
%u, %U Like the above, but inactive time stamps.
Regards,
Ken Mankoff
Org mode version 9.0.9 (9.0.9-88-g251f88-elpaplus @
/Users/mankoff/.emacs.d/elpa/org-plus-contrib-20170821/)
[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2016-02/msg00323.html
[2] https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/24368/
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