[Zim-wiki] How to send text input to Zim editor from outside? (Linux)

2015-02-10 Thread Yan King Yin, 甄景贤
Hello Zim team, I'm a newbie to Zim. I want to be able to type text via an external program into Zim's editor. I'm using Linux, so for example using D-bus interface in Python would be nice. The context: I'm using my home-brew Chinese text input tool which works only in the browser, so I have

Re: [Zim-wiki] How to send text input to Zim editor from outside? (Linux)

2015-02-10 Thread hansbkk
Just in case it's slipped anyone's mind, Zim's wiki pages are just plain text files, so any text tools, scripts etc can be be used to automate updating/creating/editing them. No need to work within the program's UI at all. Just when the human user wants to do so, refresh the index and Bob's your

Re: [Zim-wiki] How to send text input to Zim editor from outside? (Linux)

2015-02-10 Thread Sylvain Viart
Hi, Is it not what this zim plugin do? Name Quick Note Description This plugin adds a dialog to quickly drop some text or clipboard content into a zim page. Another way is to do a custom tools, reread the txt buffer.