- Marcelo.

On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 6:10 AM, Russell Adams <RLAdams@adamsinfoserv.com> wrote:

On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 12:37:16AM -0600, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote:
> A bit OT, but related.
>
> ---
> It would be *awesome* if we could somehow hook into the emacs
> paste/(drag-and)drop events and automatically "paste" or "drop" the image
> in an org buffer. I don't know if it's possible, but I imagine that if
> hooking into those events was somehow possible, then we could get the
> "event handle" with information regarding the file, and automatically
> insert a link to it, and if iimage is activated, it would then render the
> image. It would be freaking awesome, this is the only thing I miss from
> Evernote.
> ---
>
> - Marcelo.

Emacs has drag'n'drop support. In fact, I've been able to drag and
drop image files from KDE's file manager (dolphin?) into emacs and make
them custom links.

.emacs:
(defun dnd-from-kde (url action)
(insert url)
(select-frame-set-input-focus (selected-frame)))

(custom-set-variables
'(dnd-protocol-alist (quote (("file:///" . dnd-from-kde)))))

This ought to give you a place to start. The URL format may need to
change to make it an Org link, I was using file:// for another text
format.

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