But if I capture without refiling, it does. When I capture and refile in one step, it doesn't save the file the entry was refiled to. The fix was to make a hook that checks if there are any newlines, and if not, add one at the end of the capture. When you use org-capture, and you write text in the last line of the capture buffer, it does not put a newline at the end, and so if I had any headlines after the capture position, that headline would no longer be a headline. You'll likely need help on some of the steps, and that's where Google can help you.Įxamples of problems I solved to practice my Elisp: Once you understand these, instead of spending all your time reading the ELisp reference, think of simple problems you have with Emacs that you want to write and try solving them with Elisp. There are a few things you should understand really well, as you'll use them often. This is vast, and you'll likely get lost in a sea of details. Once you have a grip on the basics (loops, functions, variables, conditionals, etc), move on to the aspects that involve Emacs itself (changing text, switching buffers, etc). Focus first on the former (should not be too hard as you learned Lisp in the past).

Realize that there are two aspects to Emacs Lisp: The basic language itself, and the interaction with Emacs.

Instead, I finally used the included Emacs Lisp Reference. In my experience, the included tutorial on Emacs Lisp was not too helpful (I tried twice over the years and failed).

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