Re: [O] capture with iceweasel/firefox -- nothing works

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https://github.com/tumashu/org-capture-pop-frame

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在 2016-06-04 09:23:09，"Samuel Wales" <address@hidden> 写道：
>over many years, i have been trying to get org-protocol (or
>anything similar) to work, and it is not working reliably.
>
>intermittently, it says there is a greedy protocol.  the
>success rate of capturing is around 50% maybe.  when it is not
>working, it never works.  i have
>noticed no correlation with anything that could cause this.
>
>sometimes it captures bogus text when i just want the link,
>but i don't care about that.  at least it copied the link.
>
>i've tried:
>
>  1) org-capture firefox extension
>  2) a bookmark like this
>     - 
> javascript:location.href%20=%20'org-protocol://capture-html://w/'%20+%20encodeURIComponent(location.href)%20+%20'/'%20+%20encodeURIComponent(document.title)%20+%20'/'%20+%20encodeURIComponent(function%20()%20{var%20html%20=%20"";%20if%20(typeof%20document.getSelection%20!=%20"undefined")%20{var%20sel%20=%20document.getSelection();%20if%20(sel.rangeCount)%20{var%20container%20=%20document.createElement("div");%20for%20(var%20i%20=%200,%20len%20=%20sel.rangeCount;%20i%20<%20len;%20++i)%20{container.appendChild(sel.getRangeAt(i).cloneContents());}%20html%20=%20container.innerHTML;}}%20else%20if%20(typeof%20document.selection%20!=%20"undefined")%20{if%20(document.selection.type%20==%20"Text")%20{html%20=%20document.selection.createRange().htmlText;}}%20var%20relToAbs%20=%20function%20(href)%20{var%20a%20=%20document.createElement("a");%20a.href%20=%20href;%20var%20abs%20=%20a.protocol%20+%20"//"%20+%20a.host%20+%20a.pathname%20+%20a.search%20+%20a.hash;%20a.remove();%20return%20abs;};%20var%20elementTypes%20=%20[['a',%20'href'],%20['img',%20'src']];%20var%20div%20=%20document.createElement('div');%20div.innerHTML%20=%20html;%20elementTypes.map(function(elementType)%20{var%20elements%20=%20div.getElementsByTagName(elementType[0]);%20for%20(var%20i%20=%200;%20i%20<%20elements.length;%20i++)%20{elements[i].setAttribute(elementType[1],%20relToAbs(elements[i].getAttribute(elementType[1])));}});%20return%20div.innerHTML;}());
>  3) a bookmark like this
>     - 
> javascript:location.href='org-protocol://capture://L/'+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'/'+encodeURIComponent(document.title)+'/'+encodeURIComponent(window.getSelection())
>  4) i know there's a new one that is supposed to capture
>     format better (so you don't end up with a single
>     paragraph when there were several paragraphs).  that
>     sounds wonderful!  however, i am limited in computer
>     use (4 minutes at a time), so i don't know if it is
>     worth my trying or not.  i have to use those 4 minutes responsibly.
>  5) i followed various instructions
>
>i currently using iceweasel 38.8.0 (debian jessie) and
>emacs-version "24.4.1".
>
>i understand elisp and org.
>
>however, i don't understand javascript or org-protocol's
>internal concepts.  i am limited in concentration ability,
>so this could be a problem.  i am also hazy on how to set up
>a bookmark, but i somehow managed to do it twice.
>
>===
>
>i am very often physically unable to use a keyboard.  during
>these times i am often able to use a pointing device (2
>mouses, one for clicking and one for moving).
>
>i am often using firefox (iceweasel) and want to capture
>things to org using only the mouse.
>
>that's why i want this feature to work so much.
>
>===
>
>i want to use org-capture extension or similar so that i can
>copy snippets of text like this:
>
>  * [[link][descr]]
>  text that i selected
>  ---
>
>(the --- indicates that it came from iceweasel, and is not something i wrote.)
>
>or just the plain link like this if nothing is selected:
>
>  * [[link][descr]]
>
>i have this working.  it is just unreliable, failing randomly at random times.
>
>(note: i don't want emacs to pop up and there should be no keyboard
>interaction.  useful if emacs switches to the buffer it is saved to,
>however.  i have all that stuff taken care of in my elisp.  that part
>i understand and can fix by myself.)
>
>===
>
>i am stuck on this.
>
>after all that long-windedness, my question is this:
>
>  *what is the most reliable set of instructions or code to
>  get iceweasel to work with org?*
>
>i'd be grateful for any useful hints.
>
>thanks.
>
>
>samuel
>
>===
>
>here are just 2 of the many elisp-side things i tried over
>the years to get this to work.  elisp i can handle.
>
>  (setq org-capture-templates
>        (append
>         org-capture-templates
>         `(
>           ("p" "Protocol" entry (file+headline ,(concat org-directory
>"notes.org") "Inbox")
>            "* %^{Title}\nSource: %u, %c\n
>#+BEGIN_QUOTE\n%i\n#+END_QUOTE\n\n\n%?")
>           ("L" "Protocol Link" entry (file+headline ,(concat
>org-directory "notes.org") "Inbox")
>            "* %? [[%:link][%:description]] \nCaptured On: %U")
>           )))
>  ;; --- 
> https://github.com/sprig/org-capture-extension#set-up-handlers-in-emacs
>
>  (cl-loop for key in '("L" "p")
>           do
>           (add-to-list
>            'org-capture-templates
>            `(,key
>              ,(format "Protocol %s" key)
>              entry
>              (file+headline
>               ,org-default-notes-file
>               ;; (concat org-directory "/executive--a.org")
>               "xyzzy-remember")
>              ;; \nkill %c\nselect %x
>              ;; %:initial is like %i in org-protocol
>              ;;   if text, do --
>              ;; fixme i can perhaps remove my cleverness for whether
>              ;; there is or is not selected text as in the
>              ;; example above with begin quote.
>              ;;
>https://github.com/sprig/org-capture-extension#set-up-handlers-in-emacs
>              ;;
>              ;; a future security fix might break this cleverness
>              "%(alpha-org-protocol-string \"%:link\" \"%:description\" 
> \"%i\")"
>              ;; "*
>[[%:link][%:description]]\n%(alpha-org-protocol-region \"%i\")"
>              :prepend t
>              ;; fixme set this to nil if you want to debug ka
>              :immediate-finish t
>              ;; ensure it worked
>              ;; just remember to go to prev buffer for where you were
>              :jump-to-captured t)))
>  nil)
>(defun alpha-org-protocol-string (link description region)
>  (format "* %s\n%s\n"
>          (org-make-link-string link description)
>          (alpha-org-protocol-region region)))
>(defun alpha-org-protocol-region (string)
>  "If there is text, append dash to indicate quote."
>  (if (= 0 (length string))
>      ""
>    (concat string "\n---")))
>
>
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