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

[Peter Davis]

Nick Dokos <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.

Excellent! That works. It prepends "CAPTURE-2-" to the filename I specified in 
the template, but otherwise seems to work
beautifully.

Now to look for the Chrome version.

Thanks, all!

-pd