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

[Milan Zamazal]

>>>>> "DM" == Dimitri Minaev <address@hidden> writes:

    DM> I planned to extend that command to support other
    DM> applications. So, in Thunderbird we can get a link to the
    DM> current message with Thunderlink extension. In Okular the
    DM> current document and the page number may be obtained via dbus --
    DM> an awkward but sometimes useful contraption. That Stumpwm
    DM> command works with any program supporting X selections -- xterm,
    DM> mutt, vim, Skype, etc. They may have different ways to get the
    DM> metadata, if any, but the selected piece of text will be there,
    DM> available for any other program.

This looks like a cool idea.

    DM> I'm not yet sure if the same can be done using org-protocol.
    DM> Thunderbird does support it, but Okular, from what I can tell,
    DM> does not.

But Stumpwm could use org-protocol to pass the selection to Emacs,
couldn't it?  It might be better than sending keyboard events.