Capture from terminal command line?

Capture from terminal command line?

[Nathan Neff]

I'm looking for a way to capture notes from a terminal,
without having to jump over to emacs.

In the past, I simply append the text from the command line
to my ~/refile.org file, but if I have emacs running and have a modified
~/refile.org buffer, then I run into complications.

I think that a good way would be to have a bash script
that tells emacs to run one of the org-capture functions,
along with the newly entered text from the command line.

Can anyone point me to the right function to call?

Thanks,
--Nate

Re: Capture from terminal command line?

[Eric Schulte]

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Nathan Neff <nathan.neff@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm looking for a way to capture notes from a terminal,
> without having to jump over to emacs.
>
> In the past, I simply append the text from the command line
> to my ~/refile.org file, but if I have emacs running and have a modified
> ~/refile.org buffer, then I run into complications.
>
> I think that a good way would be to have a bash script
> that tells emacs to run one of the org-capture functions,
> along with the newly entered text from the command line.
>
> Can anyone point me to the right function to call?
>

If you have your emacs running a server [1], then you can easily connect
from without using emacsclient.  For example this short shell script
will echo its arguments in your message buffer.

Cheers -- Eric


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#!/bin/sh
emacsclient -e "(message \"hello from the command line: $(echo "$@") \")"

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>
> Thanks,
> --Nate
>


Footnotes: 
[1]  http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Emacs-Server.html

-- 
Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/