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From: Jeff Clough <jeff@chaosphere.com>
To: David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.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 12:41:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ljcqvvf9.fsf@logrus.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <090B076C-712C-42BD-B1F6-3B48F0C0C61C@gmail.com> (David Reitter's message of "Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:02:51 -0400")

David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com> writes:

>> It does seem lame that it's not looking for Safari, but then I don't
>> know if it looks for IE on Windows.  This may be a philosophical point
>> and not a technical one, so for better or worse it just might not
>> happen.
>
> You are misinformed.  It will use Safari if that's what the system default is.  It is not looking for any specific browser on OS X.  It is doing the right thing and using the browser that the user has configured on their system.  This is actually Safari on the Mac by default.

Ah, this makes more sense.

>> 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, 
>
> Once more: as it is now, Emacs does not rely on browsers at all on the Mac in its default configuration.
> It uses a system mechanism to handle arbitrary URLs, specifically, mailto: URLs.  This does NOT invoke the browser.  It invokes the system's standard mail client.  

So it throws a mailto: URL at the OS and the OS is responsible for
invoking the associated application?  If that is true, then that is very
cool.

Jeff





  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-04-14 16:41 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 [this message]
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
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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