Re: [O] How to attach data in clipboard directly?

[Sebastien Vauban]

Hi Carlos Russo,

Carlos Russo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I often need to paste fragments of pictures/images to my org file.
>
> Typically, I manually paste the fragment to a file, and then use C-c C-a m
> to attach that file to my org-file. This is rather tedious, because there
> are a few steps and extra programs involved, and I guess there must be a
> better way to do this.
>
> What I want is that emacs/orgmode understands the contents of the clipboard
> and creates that file for me. For instance, if it detects that the contents
> of the clipboard is an image or some sort of non-text format, emacs would
> dump the clipboard data to a file, auto-generate a filename, guessing the
> data type, and attach that file to my org-file via org-attach-attach.
>
> I'm thinking of a org-attach-clipboard sort of command, accessible via the
> C-c C-a (org-attach) menu.
>
> Perhaps I'm demanding too much from emacs and org-mode, but hey, couldn't it
> be done? It would be a cool feature... More important, _hasn't_ this been
> done already?

See Automatic screenshot insertion on Worg:

    http://orgmode.org/worg/org-hacks.html#sec-3-8

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sebastien Vauban