Re: idea for capture anywhere in x

[Max Nikulin]

On 12/10/2022 08:09, Samuel Wales wrote:
> the thread is about doing the same thing, or as much as possible of
> it, more generally in x.

Samuel, I assume that you are quite happy with org-capture Firefox 
extension.

Have you managed to setup capturing text from other applications? From 
my point of view all necessary moving parts have been discussed in this 
or later threads. Have you assembled them to a working solution suitable 
for you?

- Window manager menu item and shortcut calling
  emacsclient --eval '(org-capture nil "c")'
- Capture template that fetches X PRIMARY_SELECTION or CLIPBOARD.
- Optionally try to get formatted text and convert it from HTML to Org 
using pandoc.
- Perhaps try to get window title of the active application.

What I have not tried yet is if drag&drop API may provide more details 
than X selection, but I am unsure if such workflow is suitable for you.

Probably it is better to discuss code in the context of particular 
applications. Despite you wish a general approach, amount of information 
exposed by applications may vary. Some code may depend on Emacs version 
an I am unsure which one you are using currently.