> Would you be okay with a user-error message like "Cannot call org-capture from the minibuffer"?

Oh, if I'm going to get an error message I don't care which one it is. Might as well leave things as they are currently. What I was hoping is that you would be able to fix org-capture so that you can also call it from the minibuffer, if enable-recursive-minibuffers is set to t. I like to think that I can call org-capture no matter what I am doing, take a quick note or reminder, and go back to whatever it was. It is almost like that: I can't interrupt myself if the minibuffer is open, but I can in all other cases.

This is not a big deal, so if it's not easy to fix, just leave it as is. But if it happens to be easy to do I think it would be worthwhile, so that org-capture can live up to its reputation of being able to quickly capture something /no matter what you were doing at the time/!

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Omar

On Sat, Dec 12, 2020 at 12:32 PM Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> wrote:

Hi Omar,

thanks for reporting this.

Omar Antolín Camarena <omar@matem.unam.mx> writes:

> I have enable-recursive-minibuffers set to t, and just noticed that
> org-capture does not work if called from the minibuffer.
>
> Steps to reproduce:
>
> 1. run emacs -Q
> 2. evaluate (setq enable-recursive-minibuffers t) in the scratch buffer
> 3. Open the minibuffer, say by using C-x C-f
> 4. While still in find-file, run M-x org-capture and pick a template (t for Task seems to be offered by default).
>
> You should get an error message saying "Can't expand minibuffer to
> full frame".

Would you be okay with a user-error message like

"Cannot call org-capture from the minibuffer"

?

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Bastien