From: David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net>
To: Jeff Clough <jeff@chaosphere.com>
Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>, christian.lynbech@tieto.com
Subject: Re: mailclient-send-it usage of browse-url
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:58:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BC61E62.4000204@harpegolden.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3wrwaw3z1.fsf@logrus.localdomain>
Jeff Clough wrote:
> I don't think this is so much that browse-url is brittle, just that a
> case can be made that it should work for the more defaulty browsers.
> The overall issue of having Emacs get the right answer to "What is your
> mail client?" might still ought to be addressed in a way that doesn't
> rely on browsers at all, which may be more possible now than it was
> however long ago.
>
FWIW, on freedesktop.org desktops, "xdg-email" opens the user's
preferred mail composer (and takes args for specifying subject/body etc.)
Last time around, the issue of what happens when the user's preferred
mail composer desktop setting was then set to emacsclient was of concern
due to deadlock opportunities.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-14 19:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-13 19:51 mailclient-send-it usage of browse-url Christian Lynbech
2010-04-13 22:06 ` David Reitter
2010-04-14 3:22 ` Christian Lynbech
2010-04-14 11:41 ` Jeff Clough
2010-04-14 13:07 ` christian.lynbech
2010-04-14 13:25 ` David Reitter
2010-04-15 7:46 ` christian.lynbech
[not found] ` <C8D541C4-F87C-48F8-917C-5A4C6AC02203@mit.edu>
2010-04-15 16:49 ` chad
2010-04-14 13:36 ` Jeff Clough
2010-04-14 16:02 ` David Reitter
2010-04-14 16:35 ` Chad Brown
2010-04-14 16:41 ` Jeff Clough
2010-04-14 17:46 ` David Reitter
2010-04-14 23:19 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-04-15 2:28 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-04-15 7:52 ` christian.lynbech
2010-04-15 17:13 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2010-04-15 18:48 ` Richard Stallman
2010-04-16 8:05 ` christian.lynbech
2010-04-17 19:55 ` Richard Stallman
2010-04-14 19:58 ` David De La Harpe Golden [this message]
2010-04-14 14:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-04-15 8:14 ` christian.lynbech
2010-04-14 12:55 ` David Reitter
2010-04-14 13:20 ` christian.lynbech
2010-04-14 13:30 ` David Reitter
[not found] <D6FDF877-2199-48E7-8B06-4E6325EDEAC9@mit.edu>
2010-04-15 16:49 ` Fwd: " chad
2010-04-15 17:15 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-04-15 17:22 ` Chad Brown
2010-04-15 19:00 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-04-16 0:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-04-16 0:34 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-04-16 1:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-04-16 11:13 ` Lennart Borgman
2010-04-16 12:49 ` Stefan Monnier
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