Org Capture duplicating %? string at the end of buffer

[rytswd]

First of all, thanks for the great work with Denote, I have been finding it intuitive and fun to make use of my notes!

I just wanted to report how I am seeing an odd behaviour where the %? cursor position identifier in Org Capture gets duplicated.

When using denote-use-template with %? as a part of the setup, like below:

(setq org-capture-templates
      '(("n" "New note" plain
        (file denote-last-path)
        #'(lambda ()
            (let ((denote-use-title (format-time-string "%b, %Y - Week %V"))
                  (denote-use-keywords '("goal"))
                  (denote-use-template "* Goals\n%?\n\n* Notes"))
              (denote-org-capture)))
        :no-save t
        :immediate-finish nil
        :kill-buffer t
        :jump-to-captured t)))

I get the cursor correctly positioned at where %? is. But I also get an extra %? at the bottom of the capture buffer.

It is possible that I have some other Org Mode setup interfering with this, but could not find anything obvious from my end. Is this potentially an issue with the Org Capture support?

[protesilaos]

First of all, thanks for the great work with Denote, I have been finding it intuitive and fun to make use of my notes!

You are welcome!

It is possible that I have some other Org Mode setup interfering with this, but could not find anything obvious from my end.

I think what is happening here is that you wrote your own function to set up the captured contents, but left denote-org-capture-specifiers intact. Try to let bind this variable to nil or an empty string. Then it will not be appended to your note.

[rytswd]

Ah great, thank you that did the trick! I think the documentation could do a bit more clarification when using denote-use-template with let binding, how we should have denote-org-capture-specifiers set to nil in that case?