Re: Drag images from Firefox to org-mode

[Oleh <ohwoeowho@gmail.com>]

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Hi Carsten,

You can commit it whenever you like.
I don't currently have access to Windows or OSX, so it's hard
to see if the code works everywhere.

regards,
Oleh


On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Carsten Dominik
<drostekirsten@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Oleh,
>
> this is very nice thank you.
>
> If you want, turn this into a patch to org.el.  If not, I will do so later.
>
> - Carsten
>
> On Oct 18, 2013, at 11:24 AM, Oleh <ohwoeowho@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi Carsten,
> >
> > The dependencies are async, dnd and wget.
> >
> > In case dnd doesn't work, there's a fallback to clipboard via
> > `current-kill'.
> >
> > I've just added a custom variable that takes either 'wget or 'curl as
> > the download method.
> >
> > I tried before url-retrieve, but it was giving me some garbage in
> > addition to the image. So unless I know reliably the format of the
> > garbage I can't use url-retrieve. But if I figure it out, I could add
> > url-retrieve as the third custom method.
> >
> > The updates are at https://github.com/abo-abo/org-download
> >
> > regards,
> > Oleh
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Carsten Dominik <
> drostekirsten@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Oleh and others,
> >
> > does anyone know how general this code is?  Does it works on different
> operating systems?
> > We might want to include this into the Org core.
> >
> > - Carsten
> >
> > On Oct 16, 2013, at 12:04 PM, Oleh <ohwoeowho@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Here's a little hack that I use to make my life easier:
> > >
> > > (require 'async)
> > > (eval-when-compile
> > >   (require 'cl))
> > > (defun org-store-image (link basedir)
> > >   (async-start
> > >    `(lambda() (shell-command
> > >           ,(format "wget \"%s\" -P \"%s\""
> > >                    link
> > >                    (expand-file-name basedir))))
> > >    (lexical-let ((cur-buf (current-buffer)))
> > >      (lambda(x)
> > >        (with-current-buffer cur-buf
> > >          (org-display-inline-images))))))
> > >
> > > (defun org-store-image-clipboard (link)
> > >   "Save image at address LINK to current directory's subdirectory DIR.
> > > DIR is the name of the current level 0 heading."
> > >   (interactive (list (current-kill 0)))
> > >   (let ((filename (car (last (split-string link "/"))))
> > >         (dir (save-excursion
> > >                (org-up-heading-all (1- (org-current-level)))
> > >                (substring-no-properties
> > >                 (org-get-heading)))))
> > >     (if (null (image-type-from-file-name filename))
> > >         (message "not an image URL")
> > >       (unless (file-exists-p (expand-file-name filename dir))
> > >         (org-store-image link dir))
> > >       (insert (format "[[./%s/%s]]" dir filename))
> > >       (org-display-inline-images))))
> > >
> > > (setcdr (assoc "^\\(https?\\|ftp\\|file\\|nfs\\)://"
> dnd-protocol-alist) 'dnd-org-insert)
> > >
> > > (defun dnd-org-insert (uri action)
> > >   (org-store-image-clipboard uri))
> > >
> > > When it's a plain image, I can just drag it from the browser to
> org-mode.
> > > It will be downloaded in async to a subdirectory of the current
> directory and the link will be inserted
> > > at point.
> > > For stubborn images that are links I can right click to copy image
> location and call
> > > `org-store-image-clipboard' interactively.
> > >
> > > I hope it's useful to someone and that I'm not re-implementing
> standard functionality.
> > >
> > > regards,
> > > Oleh
> > >
> > > regards,
> > > Oleh
> >
> >
>
>

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