Re: org-download.el

[Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de>]

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"briangpowell ." <briangpowellms@gmail.com> writes:

> * https://github.com/abo-abo/org-download/blob/master/org-download.el has:
>
> ...
> (defcustom org-download-backend t
>   "Method to use for downloading."
>   :type '(choice
>           (const :tag "wget" "wget \"%s\" -O \"%s\"")
>           (const :tag "curl" "curl \"%s\" -o \"%s\"")
>           (const :tag "url-retrieve" t))
>   :group 'org-download)
> ...
>
> ** My guess: You don't have "wget" and/or "curl" on your Mac?

either that, or they are not in the path used in emacs (are they
installed via e.. homebrew?).

Depending on how you set the paths, the emacs process might have
different paths.

Cheers,

Rainer

>
>
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 2:49 AM, Chao Lu <loochao.list@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> Does anyone get org-download.el to work under Mac OSX? I'm struggling to
>> get it work, but it seems to help a lot, empowering org to handle images a
>> lot easier.
>>
>> I believe I've installed org-download.el correctly, but when I'm dragging
>> and drop the image into an org buffer, all I get is the link address
>> inserted into the buffer, no downloading events trigger.
>>
>> I double checked a few things before coming here:
>> - My system has both curl and download.
>> - I've set the download image dir to ~/Downloads/Foo
>> - The value of dnd-protocol-alist contains
>> ("^\\(https?\\|ftp\\|file\\|nfs\\)://" . org-download-dnd)
>>
>> The emacs I'm using is "GNU Emacs 24.3.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin, NS
>> apple-appkit-1038.36) of 2013-03-13 on bob.porkrind.org"
>>
>> Is there any thought what I should check?
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Chao
>>

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