Marcelo,
You can check out the Emacs DND (drag-n-drop) help files for more
information. I'm not sure what other capabilities it has. I know that
I was subscribing my function to the files event only, there were a
few other types.
Thanks.
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 01:31:02PM -0600, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote:
> Awesome! I will try that out.
>
> What about hooking into the pasting event and check when it's an image (or
> whatever file you want) ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Marcelo.
>
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 6:10 AM, Russell Adams
> <rlad...@adamsinfoserv.com>wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 12:37:16AM -0600, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote:
> > > A bit OT, but related.
> > >
> > > ---
> > > It would be *awesome* if we could somehow hook into the emacs
> > > paste/(drag-and)drop events and automatically "paste" or "drop" the image
> > > in an org buffer. I don't know if it's possible, but I imagine that if
> > > hooking into those events was somehow possible, then we could get the
> > > "event handle" with information regarding the file, and automatically
> > > insert a link to it, and if iimage is activated, it would then render the
> > > image. It would be freaking awesome, this is the only thing I miss from
> > > Evernote.
> > > ---
> > >
> > > - Marcelo.
> >
> > Emacs has drag'n'drop support. In fact, I've been able to drag and
> > drop image files from KDE's file manager (dolphin?) into emacs and make
> > them custom links.
> >
> > .emacs:
> > (defun dnd-from-kde (url action)
> > (insert url)
> > (select-frame-set-input-focus (selected-frame)))
> >
> > (custom-set-variables
> > '(dnd-protocol-alist (quote (("file:///" . dnd-from-kde)))))
> >
> > This ought to give you a place to start. The URL format may need to
> > change to make it an Org link, I was using file:// for another text
> > format.
> >
> >
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