Re: [STUMP] Stump, Emacs and X selection.

[David Bjergaard]

Hi Dimitri,

I'm excited to hear that you are going to extend this beyond firefox.  When
you're ready, feel free to open a PR with stumpwm-contrib and we can add it
there.

    David
    

Dimitri Minaev <address@hidden> writes:

> Milan,
>
> Thank you very much for the idea. It doesn't seem to be general
> enough, but it might work with Firefox. I planned to extend that
> command to support other applications. So, in Thunderbird we can get a
> link to the current message with Thunderlink extension. In Okular the
> current document and the page number may be obtained via dbus -- an
> awkward but sometimes useful contraption. That Stumpwm command works
> with any program supporting X selections -- xterm, mutt, vim, Skype,
> etc. They may have different ways to get the metadata, if any, but the
> selected piece of text will be there, available for any other program.
> I'm not yet sure if the same can be done using org-protocol.
> Thunderbird does support it, but Okular, from what I can tell, does
> not.
>
>
> On 13 May 2016 at 22:11, Milan Zamazal <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>>> "DM" == Dimitri Minaev <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>     DM> that would create a note in Org-mode and paste the current
>>     DM> selection and some other info taken from Firefox -- the URL and
>>     DM> the tab title.
>>
>> Off-topic, but maybe still useful for someone here: This can be done
>> without StumpWM, just with Emacs and Firefox:
>>
>> https://github.com/alphapapa/org-protocol-capture-html
>>
>>
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