Re: idea for capture anywhere in x

[Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>]

fools [me] rush in where angels dare to tread, but

> Did you try to invoke Emacs without having Emacs in front of you? Once
> you try, come back and tell me how would you capture anything from X

i use the firefox org-capture extension.  i click on a unicorn.  url
and title are saved as an org link and any selected text.
emacs correctly does not end up in the wm's [fluxbox in my case] fg,
perhaps because of my org-capture settings.  so i think i can say it
all works for firefox when the extension, which i adore, works.
incidentally all my applications are maximized or full screen for
accessibility reasons so anything popping up would be bad.
incidentally i always use kb or mouse for accessibility reasons and a
mixture does not work.  i can't follow up to this discussion or engage
with you in a back and forth of any kind, just saying it works.
perhaps i misunderstood your challenge and post [reasonably likely].
the thread is about doing the same thing, or as much as possible of
it, more generally in x.  for any application like an xterm, deluge,
maybe even emacs itself as an external to emacs buffer mode
independent facility.  perhaps without requiring a firefox extension
even, although something would presumably have to grab the url and
title behind the scenes via .mozilla files or some hyopthetical
firefox api.


On 10/11/22, Juan Manuel Macías <maciaschain@posteo.net> wrote:
> Jean Louis writes:
>
>> Did you try to invoke Emacs without having Emacs in front of you? Once
>> you try, come back and tell me how would you capture anything from X
>> selection into Emacs without having Emacs window in front of you.
>>
>> I do not know how. My thinking stops right there.
>>
>> I have four workspaces, Emacs is not on each of them.
>>
>> How do I invoke Emacs without having it in front of me with just 1 key
>> binding?
>
> One solution is to let Emacs be your X window manager. I'm not saying
> it's "the solution" to what's being discussed in this thread (sorry for
> the noise), but in my case it is. With EXWM I don't need, for example,
> anything like org-protocol. Even if I want to copy/cut/paste something
> inside X, I have these three simultation keys defined in EXWM:
>
> ([?\C-y] . [?\C-v])
> ([?\C-w] . [?\C-x])
> ([?\M-w] . [?\C-c])
>
> and I can use C-y, C-w or M-w in LibreOffice, Gimp or wherever.
>
> One more example. If I'm in the external browser I normally use when I'm
> not using eww (qutebrowser), I have a simple Org-capture template to
> copy a url and create an Org heading with the link. I just hit yy on
> qutebrowser and, without leaving there, call org-capture (C-c c). I have
> another template to download images with org-download; another to create
> a heading with the information extracted from google-scholar, etc. I
> mean that using EXWM these problems don't exist, because, one way or
> another, you're always in Emacs.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Juan Manuel
>
>


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