Re: Bring up a screen giving option to open a series of orgmode files

[Maxim Nikulin]

2020-12-09 Jean Louis wrote:
> * Maxim Nikulin [2020-12-09 18:04]:
> > bind ctrl-o any endSelection "run(pdfcapture '%f' '%p' '%x' '%y' '%X' '%Y'
> > '%u')"
>
> Thank you, I just do not see where the file is writing it to? You may
> see the screenshot attached, I am somebody who has thousands of
> finel granular PDF references. When you already made it, let me have it.

In my variant last line of script calls `xsel -b` to copy the note to 
clipboard. I have not tried to use emacs-client to invoke org-capture.

The following capture template pulls the note from clipboard without 
intermediate file:

"* %(org-get-x-clipboard 'CLIPBOARD)
"

> > > > #!/bin/bash
> > > > set -e
> > > > set -o pipefail
> > > >
> > > > getmeta() {
> > ...
> > > >         # FIXME obtain page height using pdfinfo
> > > >         page_height=792
> > ...
> > > >                 pdftotext -layout -f "$page" -l "$page" \
> > > >                         -x "$sel_x" -y "$((page_height - sel_Y))" -W 
> > > > "$((sel_X-sel_x))" -H
> >                                                           ^^^^^sel_y