Awesome! I will try that out.
What about hooking into the pasting event and check when it's an image (or
whatever file you want) ?
Thanks,
- Marcelo.
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 6:10 AM, Russell Adams <rlad...@adamsinfoserv.com>wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 12:37:16AM -0600, Marcelo de Moraes Serpa wrote:
> > A bit OT, but related.
> >
> > ---
> > It would be *awesome* if we could somehow hook into the emacs
> > paste/(drag-and)drop events and automatically "paste" or "drop" the image
> > in an org buffer. I don't know if it's possible, but I imagine that if
> > hooking into those events was somehow possible, then we could get the
> > "event handle" with information regarding the file, and automatically
> > insert a link to it, and if iimage is activated, it would then render the
> > image. It would be freaking awesome, this is the only thing I miss from
> > Evernote.
> > ---
> >
> > - Marcelo.
>
> Emacs has drag'n'drop support. In fact, I've been able to drag and
> drop image files from KDE's file manager (dolphin?) into emacs and make
> them custom links.
>
> .emacs:
> (defun dnd-from-kde (url action)
> (insert url)
> (select-frame-set-input-focus (selected-frame)))
>
> (custom-set-variables
> '(dnd-protocol-alist (quote (("file:///" . dnd-from-kde)))))
>
> This ought to give you a place to start. The URL format may need to
> change to make it an Org link, I was using file:// for another text
> format.
>
>
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