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Can you copy and paste an image into org mode? In many of my document/notes I find that I to copy and paste images into my documents like I take a screenshot and then paste..

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Yes, with the org-download module (https://github.com/abo-abo/org-download). I have some additional configuration to paste a screenshot (asking for a filename) using a keybinding. Here is my config: https://github.com/zzamboni/dot-doom/blob/master/doom.org#ca...

There are plenty of ways to do it -

https://github.com/abo-abo/org-download

If you use it on Windows and have Itfanview installed, here's is how you can do it to copy paste images from clipboard using C-c-s

(defun my-org-screenshot () "Take a screenshot into a time stamped unique-named file in the same directory as the org-buffer and insert a link to this file." (interactive) (setq screenshot_dir ".\\images\\") (setq tilde-buffer-filename (replace-regexp-in-string "/" "\\" (buffer-name) t t)) (setq filename (concat (make-temp-name (concat screenshot_dir tilde-buffer-filename ;; attempt to make irfanview approach work "_" (format-time-string "%Y%m%d_%H%M%S_")) ) ".png")) (insert (concat "[[file:" filename "]]")) (org-display-inline-images))

(global-set-key "\C-cs" 'my-org-screenshot)

Could you indent your Lisp by four spaces for formatting?

    (Like this)

On HN you only indent two spaces to turn on monospace.

Here is the lisp with formatting:

  (defun my-org-screenshot ()
    "Take a screenshot into a time stamped unique-named file in the same directory as the org-buffer and insert a link to this file."
    (interactive)
    (setq screenshot_dir ".\\images\\")
    (setq tilde-buffer-filename
          (replace-regexp-in-string "/" "\\" (buffer-name) t t))
    (setq filename
          (concat
            (make-temp-name
              (concat screenshot_dir
                      tilde-buffer-filename ;; attempt to make irfanview approach work
                      "_"
                      (format-time-string "%Y%m%d_%H%M%S_")))
            ".png"))
    (insert (concat "[[file:" filename "]]"))
    (org-display-inline-images))

Did you mean Irfanview?

Thanks for the tip. Mostly emacsing via X, but good to know.

I just jumped to emacs from vim last week and this was one of the reasons, yes it is possible to display images!

I wa salso curios about org-roam but I'm letting it sitt for a while

No, org mode is text based; however what you can do is link to an image, and then when you publish the org mode file as html, or pdf or whatever it will get interpolate and appear as though it had been pasted in.

At least that has been my experience a more seasoned orger can correct my ignorance if I do err.

Org mode supports inline images. See more here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27129338/inline-images-i...

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