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Re: [O] Drag images from Firefox to org-mode


From: Carsten Dominik
Subject: Re: [O] Drag images from Firefox to org-mode
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 11:28:46 +0200

Hi Oleh,

this is very nice thank you.

If you want, turn this into a patch to org.el.  If not, I will do so later.

- Carsten

On Oct 18, 2013, at 11:24 AM, Oleh <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi Carsten,
> 
> The dependencies are async, dnd and wget.
> 
> In case dnd doesn't work, there's a fallback to clipboard via
> `current-kill'.
> 
> I've just added a custom variable that takes either 'wget or 'curl as
> the download method.
> 
> I tried before url-retrieve, but it was giving me some garbage in
> addition to the image. So unless I know reliably the format of the
> garbage I can't use url-retrieve. But if I figure it out, I could add
> url-retrieve as the third custom method.
> 
> The updates are at https://github.com/abo-abo/org-download
> 
> regards,
> Oleh
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Carsten Dominik <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Oleh and others,
> 
> does anyone know how general this code is?  Does it works on different 
> operating systems?
> We might want to include this into the Org core.
> 
> - Carsten
> 
> On Oct 16, 2013, at 12:04 PM, Oleh <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Here's a little hack that I use to make my life easier:
> >
> > (require 'async)
> > (eval-when-compile
> >   (require 'cl))
> > (defun org-store-image (link basedir)
> >   (async-start
> >    `(lambda() (shell-command
> >           ,(format "wget \"%s\" -P \"%s\""
> >                    link
> >                    (expand-file-name basedir))))
> >    (lexical-let ((cur-buf (current-buffer)))
> >      (lambda(x)
> >        (with-current-buffer cur-buf
> >          (org-display-inline-images))))))
> >
> > (defun org-store-image-clipboard (link)
> >   "Save image at address LINK to current directory's subdirectory DIR.
> > DIR is the name of the current level 0 heading."
> >   (interactive (list (current-kill 0)))
> >   (let ((filename (car (last (split-string link "/"))))
> >         (dir (save-excursion
> >                (org-up-heading-all (1- (org-current-level)))
> >                (substring-no-properties
> >                 (org-get-heading)))))
> >     (if (null (image-type-from-file-name filename))
> >         (message "not an image URL")
> >       (unless (file-exists-p (expand-file-name filename dir))
> >         (org-store-image link dir))
> >       (insert (format "[[./%s/%s]]" dir filename))
> >       (org-display-inline-images))))
> >
> > (setcdr (assoc "^\\(https?\\|ftp\\|file\\|nfs\\)://" dnd-protocol-alist) 
> > 'dnd-org-insert)
> >
> > (defun dnd-org-insert (uri action)
> >   (org-store-image-clipboard uri))
> >
> > When it's a plain image, I can just drag it from the browser to org-mode.
> > It will be downloaded in async to a subdirectory of the current directory 
> > and the link will be inserted
> > at point.
> > For stubborn images that are links I can right click to copy image location 
> > and call
> > `org-store-image-clipboard' interactively.
> >
> > I hope it's useful to someone and that I'm not re-implementing standard 
> > functionality.
> >
> > regards,
> > Oleh
> >
> > regards,
> > Oleh
> 
> 

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