Re: [STUMP] Stump, Emacs and X selection.

[Dimitri Minaev]

David,

It's a deal -- I add the code to the contribs, and you fix the problem
with non-latin characters :)

On 17 May 2016 at 17:25, David Bjergaard <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Dimitri,
>
> I'm excited to hear that you are going to extend this beyond firefox.  When
> you're ready, feel free to open a PR with stumpwm-contrib and we can add it
> there.
>
>     David
>
>
> Dimitri Minaev <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Milan,
>>
>> Thank you very much for the idea. It doesn't seem to be general
>> enough, but it might work with Firefox. I planned to extend that
>> command to support other applications. So, in Thunderbird we can get a
>> link to the current message with Thunderlink extension. In Okular the
>> current document and the page number may be obtained via dbus -- an
>> awkward but sometimes useful contraption. That Stumpwm command works
>> with any program supporting X selections -- xterm, mutt, vim, Skype,
>> etc. They may have different ways to get the metadata, if any, but the
>> selected piece of text will be there, available for any other program.
>> I'm not yet sure if the same can be done using org-protocol.
>> Thunderbird does support it, but Okular, from what I can tell, does
>> not.
>>
>>
>> On 13 May 2016 at 22:11, Milan Zamazal <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>>>> "DM" == Dimitri Minaev <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>     DM> that would create a note in Org-mode and paste the current
>>>     DM> selection and some other info taken from Firefox -- the URL and
>>>     DM> the tab title.
>>>
>>> Off-topic, but maybe still useful for someone here: This can be done
>>> without StumpWM, just with Emacs and Firefox:
>>>
>>> https://github.com/alphapapa/org-protocol-capture-html
>>>
>>>
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-- 
With best regards,
Dimitri Minaev