Re: idea for capture anywhere in x

[Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>]

as some have mentioned keystrokes, i just wanted to point out htat the
idea here is select with mouse and run using mouse, with no keyboard
at all.  firefox org-capture does this for me.  in case there was any
confusion.

On 9/9/20, Russell Adams <RLAdams@adamsinfoserv.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 07, 2020 at 10:05:38PM -0700, Samuel Wales wrote:
>> well for a non-emacs application, i want to select text and capture
>> using wm menu.
>
> I routinely capture programming and UNIX history. I select text (X11
> clipboard), and then I have a skel/abbrev to insert it into Emacs. I
> type "pexa<space>" and it creates an example source block and pastes
> the clipboard into it with proper indentation. "pexa" stands for
> "paste example".
>
> This is *so* fast compared to creating a new source block (C-c C-, e),
> then entering it (C-c C-'), pasting (C-y), and then exiting (C-c C-').
>
> ;; Org mode skeletons instead of yasnippet
> (define-skeleton rla-paste-example
>   "Insert an Org-mode example source block and paste the clipboard into it."
> nil
>   "#+BEGIN_EXAMPLE\n"
>   ;; indent to match the src block
>   (concat "  " (replace-regexp-in-string "\n" "\n  "
> (replace-regexp-in-string "\n$" "" (current-kill 0)))) "\n"
>   "#+END_EXAMPLE\n"
>   "\n"
>   -)
>
> (define-abbrev-table 'org-mode-abbrev-table '(("pexa" "" rla-paste-example
> 0)))
>
> Mind you this is in the current buffer I'm typing in. If I wanted to
> add from the CLI, I'd use a capture template with a predefined
> location and make sure it includes the clipboard in expansion.
>
> As some of the other replies have shown, triggering capture externally
> isn't too hard. You'll just need to figure out the WM hook.
>
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