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From: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
Subject: Re: capture with iceweasel/firefox -- nothing works
Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2016 23:00:51 -0500
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Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> writes:

> Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> over many years, i have been trying to get org-protocol (or
>> anything similar) to work, and it is not working reliably.
>>
>> intermittently, it says there is a greedy protocol. the success rate
>> of capturing is around 50% maybe. when it is not working, it never
>> works. i have noticed no correlation with anything that could cause
>> this.

Another thought. Is the emacs server always running (either by starting
emacs as a daemon or by invoking server-start)?

Matt