On 10/06/2022 09:35, Samuel Wales wrote:
with the org capture firefox extension broken, i recalled this old
thread, thinking it might be a fix, and i think i understand the
issue. so i thought i would summarize here in this one post.
Samuel, have you managed to fix org-protocol setup? From other messages
I am almost sure that the issue is not with the firefox add-on.
Anyway in this thread people suggested to use `org-capture' directly, so
it may be a workaround for a while
emacsclient --eval '(org-capture nil "c")'
You can add such command to your fluxbox menu. I have the following
template:
("c" "Clipboard" entry
(file "")
"* %?%(org-get-x-clipboard 'CLIPBOARD)
" :empty-lines 1)
I do not remember why "%c" and "%x" substitutions did not work for me,
perhaps too old org system package. 'PRIMARY should be even more convenient.
otoh, if there is such a thing as "a cli command that will ask firefox
for its current url" then it is possible.
It was you who found https://github.com/bitspook/spookfox I never tried
it, but I do not see any way to fetch something from firefox besides
this kind of extensions (KDE plasma integration or
https://github.com/osnr/TabFS).
You can copy URL to clipboard, just select text and obtain both PRIMARY
and CLIPBOARD from an org-capture template.
An idea for any application accordingly to the subject. It is possible
to obtain window title, something like
xdotool getactivewindow getwindowname
(untested), or more low level
xprop -id "$(
xprop -root -f _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW 0x '=$0' _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW |
cut -f 2- -d =
)" -f _NET_WM_NAME 8s '=$0' _NET_WM_NAME |
cut -f 2- -d =
Finally a bonus for those who read mails till the end of the message. I
have figured out how to get org markup from selection in firefox,
libreoffice writer, etc. Unsure if such approach has some security
issues, I never tried to evaluate to which degree pandoc is safe. It can
be called from emacs to insert output into the current buffer or "|
xclip -in" may be appended to replace selection buffer. More accurate
script can check
"xclip -out -target TARGETS" for presence of "text/html" string
#!/bin/bash
set -o pipefail
selection=primary
xclip -selection "$selection" -out -target text/html 2>/dev/null |
pandoc --from=html --to=org - ||
xclip -selection "$selection" -out
