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Better capture from scripts

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Now I can have a script (bound to a global key in my operating system)
start a frame for taking notes/minutes for a meeting.
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Howard Abrams 2023-01-09 19:49:56 -08:00
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@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ And a less-disruptive keybinding:
* External Capturing
Using =emacsclient=, the operating system or other applications can trigger a call to capture content into Emacs. I started with the functions from [[https://macowners.club/posts/org-capture-from-everywhere-macos/][this essay]], which made a nice approach to opening and closing a frame:
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(defun start-capture-frame ()
(defun start-capture-frame (&optional template-key)
"Create a new frame and run `org-capture'."
(interactive)
(make-frame '((name . "capture")
@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ Using =emacsclient=, the operating system or other applications can trigger a ca
(select-frame-by-name "capture")
(delete-other-windows)
(cl-letf (((symbol-function 'switch-to-buffer-other-window) 'switch-to-buffer))
(org-capture)))
(org-capture nil template-key)))
#+end_src
When I call [[help:org-capture][org-capture]] in its own frame, I don’t want any other windows around, so we /rebind/ =org-capture= ’s call to switch the buffer to another window, to switch to the capture buffer.
@ -218,6 +218,12 @@ This external shell script calls the function to kick everything off from applic
#+begin_src sh :shebang "#!/bin/bash" :tangle ~/bin/emacs-capture
/usr/local/bin/emacsclient -s work -n -e "(start-capture-frame)"
#+end_src
And for even quicker work, we can have special scripts tied to special keybindings:
#+begin_src sh :shebang "#!/bin/bash" :tangle ~/bin/emacs-capture-meeting :chmod 755
/usr/local/bin/emacsclient -s work -n -e "(start-capture-frame \"sm\")"
#+end_src
** Pull MacOS-Specific Content
The [[https://gitlab.com/aimebertrand/org-mac-link][org-mac-link]] project makes it easy to tell Emacs to retrieve information from other apps, e.g. the URL of the opened tab in Firefox.
#+begin_src emacs-lisp