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save-excursion: Wrong type argument: integer-or-marker-p, nil in template definition (alien.top)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Hi everyone,

u/daviwil had released an excellent video in his System Crafters channel, where he showed how to hack org-roam:

https://systemcrafters.net/build-a-second-brain-in-emacs/5-org-roam-hacks/

I have copied his code into my config (the function that allows to create a TODO in a project file that we select (or create if not existing) is very useful.

I want to create a similar one: I want to create an event in a select customer file and to create this customer file if it does not exist.

The filter of the nodes with the tags "customer" works, but I am stuck with the definition of the content to insert as the event:

- I want the events to be inserted as subheadings of the heading "History" of the customer file (easy)

- I want the events to be saved as a tree structure:

** Year
*** Month
**** day
***** Event 1
***** Event 2....

I am trying to modify his code, but I always have errors

- I have replaced plain with entry in order to get the content as a heading

- I have replaced file+head+olp in the template definition by file+olp+datetree

 (org-roam-capture- :node (org-roam-node-read
                            nil
                            (my/org-roam-filter-by-tag "customer"))
  :templates '(("p" "project" entry "* %<%u>%?/n%i\n%a"
                                   :if-new (file+olp+datetree "%<%Y%m%d%H%M%S>-${slug}.org"
                                                          "#+title: ${title}\n#+category: ${title}\n#+filetags: project"
                                                          ("History"))))))

But still I get the error save-excursion: Wrong type argument: integer-or-marker-p, nil"

What do I get wrong??

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Could you fix the formatting?

The only code block formatting method which works for all users of reddit is to switch the reddit editor to markdown mode* and indent the code by 4 spaces (you can use M-4 C-x C-i on a region followed by M-x untabify to achieve this in Emacs); and you need to use empty lines to separate the indented lines from the other text. Otherwise for lots of readers your message looks like this: https://old.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/17etbx8/saveexcursion_wrong_type_argument/k685ohy/

Be sure to remove any different syntax intended for formatting (such as triple backticks) at the same time.

(*) Switching to the markdown editor may or may not still be necessary. At one time it prevented problems.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I will, thx

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have difficulties with the formatting, are you still able to read and write in Reddit via Emacs?
What package do you use? md4rd?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I read reddit in Firefox and I make use of https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/edit-with-emacs1/ , but you can also just copy/paste between the markdown editor and emacs.