over many years, i have been trying to get org-protocol (or
anything similar) to work, and it is not working reliably.
intermittently, it says there is a greedy protocol. the
success rate of capturing is around 50% maybe. when it is not
working, it never works. i have
noticed no correlation with anything that could cause this.
sometimes it captures bogus text when i just want the link,
but i don't care about that. at least it copied the link.
i've tried:
1) org-capture firefox extension
2) a bookmark like this
-
javascript:location.href%20=%20'org-protocol://capture-html://w/'%20+%20encodeURIComponent(location.href)%20+%20'/'%20+%20encodeURIComponent(document.title)%20+%20'/'%20+%20encodeURIComponent(function%20()%20{var%20html%20=%20"";%20if%20(typeof%20document.getSelection%20!=%20"undefined")%20{var%20sel%20=%20document.getSelection();%20if%20(sel.rangeCount)%20{var%20container%20=%20document.createElement("div");%20for%20(var%20i%20=%200,%20len%20=%20sel.rangeCount;%20i%20<%20len;%20++i)%20{container.appendChild(sel.getRangeAt(i).cloneContents());}%20html%20=%20container.innerHTML;}}%20else%20if%20(typeof%20document.selection%20!=%20"undefined")%20{if%20(document.selection.type%20==%20"Text")%20{html%20=%20document.selection.createRange().htmlText;}}%20var%20relToAbs%20=%20function%20(href)%20{var%20a%20=%20document.createElement("a");%20a.href%20=%20href;%20var%20abs%20=%20a.protocol%20+%20"//"%20+%20a.host%20+%20a.pathname%20+%20a.search%20+%20a.hash;%20a.remove();%20return%20abs;};%20var%20elementTypes%20=%20[['a',%20'href'],%20['img',%20'src']];%20var%20div%20=%20document.createElement('div');%20div.innerHTML%20=%20html;%20elementTypes.map(function(elementType)%20{var%20elements%20=%20div.getElementsByTagName(elementType[0]);%20for%20(var%20i%20=%200;%20i%20<%20elements.length;%20i++)%20{elements[i].setAttribute(elementType[1],%20relToAbs(elements[i].getAttribute(elementType[1])));}});%20return%20div.innerHTML;}());
3) a bookmark like this
-
javascript:location.href='org-protocol://capture://L/'+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'/'+encodeURIComponent(document.title)+'/'+encodeURIComponent(window.getSelection())
4) i know there's a new one that is supposed to capture
format better (so you don't end up with a single
paragraph when there were several paragraphs). that
sounds wonderful! however, i am limited in computer
use (4 minutes at a time), so i don't know if it is
worth my trying or not. i have to use those 4 minutes responsibly.
5) i followed various instructions
i currently using iceweasel 38.8.0 (debian jessie) and
emacs-version "24.4.1".
i understand elisp and org.
however, i don't understand javascript or org-protocol's
internal concepts. i am limited in concentration ability,
so this could be a problem. i am also hazy on how to set up
a bookmark, but i somehow managed to do it twice.
===
i am very often physically unable to use a keyboard. during
these times i am often able to use a pointing device (2
mouses, one for clicking and one for moving).
i am often using firefox (iceweasel) and want to capture
things to org using only the mouse.
that's why i want this feature to work so much.
===
i want to use org-capture extension or similar so that i can
copy snippets of text like this:
* [[link][descr]]
text that i selected
---
(the --- indicates that it came from iceweasel, and is not something i wrote.)
or just the plain link like this if nothing is selected:
* [[link][descr]]
i have this working. it is just unreliable, failing randomly at random times.
(note: i don't want emacs to pop up and there should be no keyboard
interaction. useful if emacs switches to the buffer it is saved to,
however. i have all that stuff taken care of in my elisp. that part
i understand and can fix by myself.)
===
i am stuck on this.
after all that long-windedness, my question is this:
*what is the most reliable set of instructions or code to
get iceweasel to work with org?*
i'd be grateful for any useful hints.
thanks.
samuel
===
here are just 2 of the many elisp-side things i tried over
the years to get this to work. elisp i can handle.
(setq org-capture-templates
(append
org-capture-templates
`(
("p" "Protocol" entry (file+headline ,(concat org-directory
"notes.org") "Inbox")
"* %^{Title}\nSource: %u, %c\n
#+BEGIN_QUOTE\n%i\n#+END_QUOTE\n\n\n%?")
("L" "Protocol Link" entry (file+headline ,(concat
org-directory "notes.org") "Inbox")
"* %? [[%:link][%:description]] \nCaptured On: %U")
)))
;; --- https://github.com/sprig/org-capture-extension#set-up-handlers-in-emacs
(cl-loop for key in '("L" "p")
do
(add-to-list
'org-capture-templates
`(,key
,(format "Protocol %s" key)
entry
(file+headline
,org-default-notes-file
;; (concat org-directory "/executive--a.org")
"xyzzy-remember")
;; \nkill %c\nselect %x
;; %:initial is like %i in org-protocol
;; if text, do --
;; fixme i can perhaps remove my cleverness for whether
;; there is or is not selected text as in the
;; example above with begin quote.
;;
https://github.com/sprig/org-capture-extension#set-up-handlers-in-emacs
;;
;; a future security fix might break this cleverness
"%(alpha-org-protocol-string \"%:link\" \"%:description\" \"%i\")"
;; "*
[[%:link][%:description]]\n%(alpha-org-protocol-region \"%i\")"
:prepend t
;; fixme set this to nil if you want to debug ka
:immediate-finish t
;; ensure it worked
;; just remember to go to prev buffer for where you were
:jump-to-captured t)))
nil)
(defun alpha-org-protocol-string (link description region)
(format "* %s\n%s\n"
(org-make-link-string link description)
(alpha-org-protocol-region region)))
(defun alpha-org-protocol-region (string)
"If there is text, append dash to indicate quote."
(if (= 0 (length string))
""
(concat string "\n---")))
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