Re: idea for capture anywhere in x

[Ihor Radchenko]

Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> writes:

> although i always fear it breaking or silently failing, as i have
> emacs in the bg behind ff when i run it and do not want to do more
> mousing and inspecting to find out if worked each time.

You may hook notifications-notify to org-capture-after-finalize-hook to
see notification when the capture is successful.

>> - Capture template that fetches X PRIMARY_SELECTION or CLIPBOARD.
>
> with a capture template that has percents for th3ese or so?

Yes. From org-capture-templates docstring:

  %x          Content of the X clipboard.

> btw on occasion i wnt to capture from emacs using mouse only, but not
> all modes have mouse context menu.

What about menu bar entry?

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