Re: [O] "Capture"-like browser plugin?

[Nick Dokos]

Peter Davis <address@hidden> writes:

> Alan Schmitt <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> On 2015-07-29 06:18, Peter Davis <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Thank you, Daniele. I've tried the above command line, and I get:
>>>
>>> emacsclient: can't find socket; have you started the server?
>>> To start the server in Emacs, type "M-x server-start".
>>> emacsclient: No socket or alternate editor.  Please use:
>>>
>>>     --socket-name
>>>     --server-file      (or environment variable EMACS_SERVER_FILE)
>>>     --alternate-editor (or environment variable ALTERNATE_EDITOR)
>>>
>>> I have (server-start) at the top of my .emacs file, and I've restarted
>>> manually a few times, so I suspect emacsclient is failing
>>> silently somehow and that's the problem. I'll try to troubleshoot that.
>>
>> You’re probably running the emacsclient that comes by default with OS X,
>> which is probably a different version from your emacs. Here I had to
>> change the path in the extension setting to use
>> “/usr/local/bin/emacsclient” instead of the system
>> “/usr/bin/emacsclient”.
>
> Ah! There's no /usr/local/bin/emacsclient, but on my Mac, I have
>
> /Applications/Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin-x86_64-10_5/emacsclient
>
> When I set the extension to use that, I get a new frame with a buffer named 
> Org-capture%20for%20Firefox, but there's nothing in it
> and it doesn't seem to correspond to a file.
>
> Progress.
>

You need to (require 'org-protocol) in your .emacs (or wherever).
And if you don't want the new frame, you can uncheck that it in the extension's 
preferences.

Nick