Setting Up org-protocol on Mac

org-protocol.el – Mac OS X setup doesn’t work anymore according to Issue #3 · neil-smithline-elisp/EmacsClient.app.

Step 1. Create an application

• Launch the Script Editor application and create a new document
• Copy-and-paste the following code into the new document
• Run where emacsclient in cli to get the path to emacsclient on your system
• Change “/path/to/your/emacsclient” to the result of where emacsclient
• Save it in Application (not the default Script) File Format as org-protocol.app

on open location this_URL
	do shell script "/path/to/your/emacsclient \"" & this_URL & "\""
	tell application "Emacs" to activate
end open location

Step 2. Configure the application

• Navigate to the application (i.e., org-protocol.app) in the Finder, then right-click on it and select Show Package Contents. Now go into the Contents folder and open Info.plist
• Add the following code to the file, making sure to keep all existing key/string pairs intact:

<key>CFBundleURLTypes</key>
<array>
  <dict>
    <key>CFBundleURLName</key>
    <string>org-protocol handler</string>
    <key>CFBundleURLSchemes</key>
    <array>
      <string>org-protocol</string>
    </array>
  </dict>
</array>

Step 3. Install the protocol

To register the protocol, just click on the org-protocol.app.

Step 4. Test your results

See http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-protocol.html#orgheadline8

Notes

Emacs doesn’t activate?

I use graphical Emacs and start Emacs server from there, however after clicking some org-protocol link, Emacs doesn’t activate. I don’t know the cause. If you encounter the same issue AND don’t like it, you can try this instead

on open location this_URL
   do shell script "/usr/local/bin/emacsclient \"" & this_URL & "\" && open -a Emacs"
end open location

User Script

On web browser, besides bookmarklets, you can also use User Script, for example, ./org-protocol.user.js binds two keys to Org: store-link and Org: capture.