Re: idea for capture anywhere in x

[Maxim Nikulin]

09.09.2020 11:52, Maxim Nikulin wrote:
> Capture templates allow calling of arbitrary lisp code, so you could 
> take value from kill ring or call low level gui-get-selection function. 
> The latter would allow separate templates for primary selection and for 
> clipboard.

Today I have noticed that there are %c and %x substitutions for capture 
templates (thanks to the patch suggesting %L). With default preferences 
emacs listen to X clipboard and adds its contents to kill-ring, so 
current clipboard content is available as %c. %x at first tries primary 
selection. So there is no need to call gui-get-selection directly. By 
default both variants of selection are available through substitutions. 
If emacs is tuned to use primary selection, there is a compatibility 
function org-get-x-clipboard.