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Re: [O] Getting rid of split frame with org-capture
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Nick Dokos |
Subject: |
Re: [O] Getting rid of split frame with org-capture |
Date: |
Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:57:21 -0500 |
Tom Prince <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 23:13:11 -0500, Nick Dokos <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Not worth the bother IMO[fn:1], but if you wish to implement it and submit
> > a patch, I'd be happy to review it.
> >
> > Nick
> >
> > Footnotes:
> >
> > [fn:1] Remember, capture is supposed to be as unobtrusive as possible:
> > you just want to squirrel away something for future
> > reference. Bells and whistles (which, IMO, this change would be)
> > are not the point: you want to get in, record the data and get
> > out and back to work as fast as possible. Popping up frames slows
> > things down but more importantly jolts you away from what you
> > were doing. At least, it would me (I think): that's why I don't
> > think it's worth it, but you may very well disagree.
>
> It isn't worth *if* capture is invoked from emacs. If capture is invoked
> from org-protocol in firefox, then there might not even be a emacs frame
> visible.
>
<OT rant>
org-protocol is below my horizon :-) I had gotten it working a long time
ago, then something happened in ff and broke it, I fixed it, they broke
it again and at some point I gave up: every time I had to fix it, I had
to go back and relearn everything (it's not as if I live and breathe ff
arcana) and do a few hours' worth of research and then try a few dozen
times, tweaking this and that because all the instructions were either
outdated or inconsistent - if "they" are not respectful enough of the
thousands of people that used the feature that they broke and not
cognizant of the pain they produce, I will not use their damn
feature. Similar remarks apply to the "improvements" of Unity and Gnome
3: a plague a' both their houses. All I need the damn desktop to do is
open emacs when I click on the icon and give me enough workspaces for my
needs (which vary). I'd rather do cut-n-paste than waste another second
on org-protocol (mind you, it's not org-protocol's problem: it's the
other side that breaks - but without the other side, org-protocol is
almost useless).
Ah, I feel better now...
</OT rant>
> 1) If I don't pass -c to emacsclient, then I need to search all my
> workspaces to find where emacs decided to put the capture frame
> 2) If I pass do pass -c to emacsclient, then I need to close the frame
> afterwards. And more significantly, I need to close the empty frame
> when I use store-link instead. (I could work around this by using
> seperate protocols for for each)
>
Sounds like a worthwhile thing to fix - patches would probably be welcome.
Nick
Re: [O] Getting rid of split frame with org-capture, Nick Dokos, 2011/11/13