Nathan Neff <nathan.neff@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm looking for a way to capture notes from a terminal,
> without having to jump over to emacs.
>
> In the past, I simply append the text from the command line
> to my ~/refile.org file, but if I have emacs running and have a modified
> ~/refile.org buffer, then I run into complications.
>
> I think that a good way would be to have a bash script
> that tells emacs to run one of the org-capture functions,
> along with the newly entered text from the command line.
>
> Can anyone point me to the right function to call?
>

If you have your emacs running a server [1], then you can easily connect
from without using emacsclient.  For example this short shell script
will echo its arguments in your message buffer.

Cheers -- Eric