`denote-file-type` value get lost and always the Org meta data is inserted about denote

[protesilaos]

Strange... It seems to work on my end. Just invoked your command:

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title      = "Testing this with denote-md command"
date       = 2022-06-12T17:52:12+03:00
tags       = ["testing"]
identifier = "20220612T175212"
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Note that the (file-name-directory (buffer-file-name)) in denote-md does not work when called form the *scratch* buffer (my initial test). But that is not related to the denote-file-type.

[kaushalmodi]

Oops, sorry for this noise. I had denote-file-type set to nil in a project .dir-locals.el. I think that denote internally creates a temp buffer and so the .dir-locals.el settings kick in there.

[protesilaos]

I got a backtrace:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
  file-name-directory(nil)
  (let ((denote-directory (file-name-directory (buffer-file-name))) (denote-file-type 'markdown-toml)) (call-interactively #'denote))
  denote-md()
  funcall-interactively(denote-md)
  call-interactively(denote-md record nil)
  command-execute(denote-md record)
  execute-extended-command(nil "denote-md" nil)
  funcall-interactively(execute-extended-command nil "denote-md" nil)
  call-interactively(execute-extended-command nil nil)
  command-execute(execute-extended-command)

[kaushalmodi]

Note that the (file-name-directory (buffer-file-name)) in denote-md does not work when called form the scratch buffer (my initial test).

Correct. I make sure I always call it from a file buffer (it was a quick way for me to change the denote directory.

[protesilaos]

Oops, sorry for this noise.

No worries!

.dir-locals.el settings

We should elaborate on this in the section about creating those user-level commands. It will be useful, especially for the denote-directory.