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From: "Sebastien Vauban" <wxhgmqzgwmuf-geNee64TY+gS+FvcfC7Uqw@public.gmane.org>
To: emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: How to attach data in clipboard directly?
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:03:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <80pqm3499k.fsf@somewhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 98495103-9583-4D34-A516-85B15DAD785F@gmail.com

Hi Carlos Russo,

Carlos Russo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I often need to paste fragments of pictures/images to my org file.
>
> Typically, I manually paste the fragment to a file, and then use C-c C-a m
> to attach that file to my org-file. This is rather tedious, because there
> are a few steps and extra programs involved, and I guess there must be a
> better way to do this.
>
> What I want is that emacs/orgmode understands the contents of the clipboard
> and creates that file for me. For instance, if it detects that the contents
> of the clipboard is an image or some sort of non-text format, emacs would
> dump the clipboard data to a file, auto-generate a filename, guessing the
> data type, and attach that file to my org-file via org-attach-attach.
>
> I'm thinking of a org-attach-clipboard sort of command, accessible via the
> C-c C-a (org-attach) menu.
>
> Perhaps I'm demanding too much from emacs and org-mode, but hey, couldn't it
> be done? It would be a cool feature... More important, _hasn't_ this been
> done already?

See Automatic screenshot insertion on Worg:

    http://orgmode.org/worg/org-hacks.html#sec-3-8

Best regards,
  Seb

-- 
Sebastien Vauban

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-24 14:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-24 10:21 How to attach data in clipboard directly? Carlos Russo
2011-06-24 14:03 ` Sebastien Vauban [this message]
2011-06-25 10:06   ` Carlos Russo
2011-06-27 16:44     ` Bastien

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