Improved org-capture on MacOS
I read this post and it got me excited about using emacsclient to capture from
anywhere on MacOS. I was particular about getting the capture frame to show only
capture-related buffers, so I needed to make some modifications to the original
code based on comments on this stackoverflow question.
Here’s my solution:
1(defun my/make-org-capture-frame ()
2 "Create a new frame and run `org-capture'."
3 (interactive)
4 (make-frame '((name . "capture")
5 (top . 300)
6 (left . 700)
7 (width . 80)
8 (height . 25)))
9 (select-frame-by-name "capture")
10 (delete-other-windows)
11 (cl-letf (((symbol-function 'switch-to-buffer-other-window) #'switch-to-buffer) ((symbol-function 'org-display-buffer-split) #'org-display-buffer-full-frame)) (org-capture)))
12
13(defun my/org-capture-delete-frame (orig-fun &rest args)
14 (if (equal "capture" (frame-parameter nil 'name))
15 (delete-frame))
16 (apply orig-fun args))
17
18(advice-add 'user-error :around #'my/org-capture-delete-frame)
19(advice-add 'org-capture-finalize :around #'my/org-capture-delete-frame)Now you can call emacsclient -nw --eval "(my/make-org-capture-frame)" and it
will open a capture buffer in a new frame.