This is very cool, thanks, and I very much use Automator. I will have a look later, but it seems that you have to move focus to Emacs, so it does not directly send something to a orgmode document straight from the copy action in the browser.
El mié, 6 ene 2021 a las 17:56, Tim Visher (<tim.vis...@gmail.com>) escribió: > On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 1:43 AM Gerardo Moro <gerardomor...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Basically that: as I copy (Control-C) text from the browser (Chrome), I >> would like those copied sentences to be sent to a ordered list in an >> OrgMode document: >> >> - copied text 1 >> - copied text 2 >> - etc. >> >> Any ideas? This would be very useful. >> > > On macOS I've done _similar_ things to this (albeit not exactly what > you're asking) by simply generating org text for me to paste in. > > For instance I have an applescript `org-current-tab`: > > ``` > … > on org_current_tab() > tell application "Google Chrome" > set the_title to title of active tab of front window > set the_title to my replace_chars(the_title, "[", " ") > set the_title to my replace_chars(the_title, "]", " ") > return "[[" & URL of active tab of front window & "][" & the_title > & "]]" as text > end tell > end org_current_tab > ``` > > Then from anywhere I can activate this applescript and all I need to do is > whack `C-y` in emacs and I get the link pasted in. > > It's not hard then to extend this directly into emacs via the `osascript` > executable: > > ``` > (defun org-current-tab > () > (interactive) > (unless (eq major-mode 'org-mode) > (user-error "This command must be triggered in an org buffer.")) > (let* ((output (with-temp-buffer > (call-process > "osascript" nil t nil > "-e" "tell application \"Finder\" to set > current_tab_handlers to (load script file \"current_tab_handlers.scpt\" of > folder \"Dropbox\" of home as alias)" > "-e" "tell current_tab_handlers to org_current_tab()") > (substring-no-properties (thing-at-point 'line t) 0 > -1)))) > (insert output))) > ``` > > I'm not sure what environment you're in so you may not have access to a > system's scripting tool like Applescript but depending on the scripting > facilities of whatever you're targeting maybe you can get most of the way > there. At the worst you could add whatever text you want to your clipboard > and then write some elisp that processes it before writing it to your org > buffer. >
