Deft always creates new files with .txt extension

[olegbc1]

It appears that despite the configuration, deft always saves files with .txt extension.
Running Windows 10 and GNU Emacs 26.0.90 (build 3, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2017-10-13. Can you help me escape the corporate windows hell with emacs? :)

My config below

;; notational velocity like package https://jblevins.org/projects/deft/
  (use-package deft
  :straight t)

;; setting default extensions for deft to search
(setq deft-text-mode 'org-mode)
(setq deft-directory "~/Dropbox/Oleg/Org/")
(setq deft-new-file-format "%Y-%m-%dT%H%M") ;; on windows files with ":"-symbol can't be saved, so this is editing format to save in a format without ":"
(setq deft-extensions '("org"))
  
;; making deft also search for files in subdirectories
(setq deft-recursive t)

(global-set-key [C-f12] 'deft) 

[jrblevin]

Can you try configuring it like this and let me know if it works?

(use-package deft
  :bind ("C-<f12>" . deft)
  :init (setq deft-directory "~/Dropbox/Oleg/Org/"
              deft-text-mode 'org-mode
              deft-extensions '("org")
              deft-recursive t
              deft-new-file-format "%Y-%m-%dT%H%M"))

Otherwise, you can try setting deft-default-extension directly. It will default to the first value in deft-extensions, but for it to work that way the extensions list needs to be set before loading the package.

[olegbc1]

@jrblevin your code worked - thanks! Do you know why this was better?

[jrblevin]

Glad it worked!

With use-package, :init evaluates the code before the package is loaded, so then when deft chooses the first element of deft-extensions, it's your custom list not the package default list (which begins with "txt").

[olegbc1]

Thanks! Just to clarify - shouldn't (setq deft-extensions '("org")) declared after (use-package deft) just override the the package defaults?

[jrblevin]

The code in the package works like this:

(defcustom deft-extensions '("txt" "text" "md" "markdown" "org"))
(defvar deft-default-extension (car deft-extensions))

So, for better or worse, deft-default-extension is currently defined relative to the value of deft-extensions at package load time. Perhaps I should use a function instead, so that the default extensions can change dynamically.

[olegbc1]

Got it, thanks! I'll flag this issue as closed.
Thanks for your work on these packages - deft, your themes and markdown mode are unbelievably useful!