Re: what would cause failure in template for org capture?

[Tim Cross]

No Wayman <iarchivedmywholelife@gmail.com> writes:

>> from an earlier thread, I recall you mentioned you were using native
>> compilation? This is almost certainly the cause of your problem.
>
> This does smell like a byte-compilation problem.
> Seems to be a failure with any interactive, single-character %-escaped 
> patterns
> in a template string (e.g. %^g, %^C, %^t).
> I've narrowed it down to a call to pcase in `org-capture-fill-template'.
> As Eric mentions, the problem disappears if the function is
> re-evaluated/instrumented.
> I have disabled native compilation and the problem persists with just a 
> freshly
> byte-compiled elc of org-capture.
> Tested this with the following recipe:
>
> 1. eval the following:
> (org-capture-fill-template "%^t") ;fails with `unrecognized template
> placeholder: %^t`
> 2. eval org-capture-fill-template's definition, and then re-eval the above.
> Works properly. User is prompted for a time.
> 3. byte compile org-capture-fill-template: (byte-compile
> #'org-capture-fill-template)
> 4. eval (org-capture-fill-template "%^t") ; error is back
>
>
> Running Emacs 28.0.50
> Repository revision: 903ecd7bea7d8f99a7dc84150728219283d79bf0
> Repository branch: master

Need to see if this can be reproduced in emacs 27.2. If it cannot, I
would suspect a bug in Emacs 28 and possibly something which should be
reported as an emacs bug (rather than an org bug).