Handling the message:// protocol in Emacs

Handling the message:// protocol in Emacs

[Jean-Christophe Helary via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor]

I’d like to have URIs defined as:

message://[string]

open in the default macOS Mail reader (Mail.app).

How would I go about to achieve that?

-- 
Jean-Christophe Helary
https://sr.ht/~brandelune/
@jchelary@sciences.social

Re: Handling the message:// protocol in Emacs

[Björn Bidar]

Jean-Christophe Helary via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

> I’d like to have URIs defined as:
>
> message://[string]
>
> open in the default macOS Mail reader (Mail.app).
>
> How would I go about to achieve that?

You would have to write your own browse-url function and register it to
`browse-url-handlers'.

Read:
(info "(emacs) Browse-URL")

Re: Handling the message:// protocol in Emacs

[Jean-Christophe Helary via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor]

> On Dec 30, 2024, at 13:29, Björn Bidar <bjorn.bidar@thaodan.de> wrote:
> 
> Jean-Christophe Helary via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:
> 
>> I’d like to have URIs defined as:
>> 
>> message://[string]
>> 
>> open in the default macOS Mail reader (Mail.app).
>> 
>> How would I go about to achieve that?
> 
> You would have to write your own browse-url function and register it to
> `browse-url-handlers'.
> 
> Read:
> (info "(emacs) Browse-URL")

Björn,

Thank you very much for the reply.

In fact, when I use M-x browse-url on a message://[string] URL, Emacs properly opens it in the mail application.

I guess it might be an org-mode issue then, since the org-mode file where I have the URL properly recognizes a https:// URL as being clickable but not a message:// URL.

It looks like it’s an already solved issue, though:
https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/45403/is-it-possible-to-create-clickable-links-to-macos-mail-app-email-via-message

It would be good if org-mode could recognize that protocol out of the box...

-- 
Jean-Christophe Helary
https://sr.ht/~brandelune/
@jchelary@sciences.social

Re: Handling the message:// protocol in Emacs

[tpeplt]

Jean-Christophe Helary via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

>
> In fact, when I use M-x browse-url on a message://[string] URL, Emacs
> properly opens it in the mail application.
>
> I guess it might be an org-mode issue then, since the org-mode file
> where I have the URL properly recognizes a https:// URL as being
> clickable but not a message:// URL.
>
> It looks like it’s an already solved issue, though:
> https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/45403/is-it-possible-to-create-clickable-links-to-macos-mail-app-email-via-message
>
> It would be good if org-mode could recognize that protocol out of the box...

Because ‘org-mode’ is included with Emacs, you might consider reporting
this behavior using M-x report-emacs-bug, either as a desired feature
for Emacs or as a mistake in how Emacs is working.  If it is the latter,
then consider looking at the Emacs user manual’s chapter on Org mode,
(info "(emacs) Org Mode"), and demonstrating how Emacs’s behavior does
not match the manual.

-- 
The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parliament of Birds.

Re: Handling the message:// protocol in Emacs

[Björn Bidar]

tpeplt <tpeplt@gmail.com> writes:

> Jean-Christophe Helary via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
> <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>
>> In fact, when I use M-x browse-url on a message://[string] URL, Emacs
>> properly opens it in the mail application.
>>
>> I guess it might be an org-mode issue then, since the org-mode file
>> where I have the URL properly recognizes a https:// URL as being
>> clickable but not a message:// URL.
>>
>> It looks like it’s an already solved issue, though:
>> https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/45403/is-it-possible-to-create-clickable-links-to-macos-mail-app-email-via-message
>>
>> It would be good if org-mode could recognize that protocol out of the box...
>
> Because ‘org-mode’ is included with Emacs, you might consider reporting
> this behavior using M-x report-emacs-bug, either as a desired feature
> for Emacs or as a mistake in how Emacs is working.  If it is the latter,
> then consider looking at the Emacs user manual’s chapter on Org mode,
> (info "(emacs) Org Mode"), and demonstrating how Emacs’s behavior does
> not match the manual.

I agree but please use M-x org-submit-bug-report instead.

Re: Handling the message:// protocol in Emacs

[tpeplt]

Björn Bidar <bjorn.bidar@thaodan.de> writes:

>>> It would be good if org-mode could recognize that protocol out of the box...
>>
>> Because ‘org-mode’ is included with Emacs, you might consider reporting
>> this behavior using M-x report-emacs-bug, either as a desired feature
>> for Emacs or as a mistake in how Emacs is working.  If it is the latter,
>> then consider looking at the Emacs user manual’s chapter on Org mode,
>> (info "(emacs) Org Mode"), and demonstrating how Emacs’s behavior does
>> not match the manual.
>
> I agree but please use M-x org-submit-bug-report instead.

Thanks.  I was not aware of that command. 

Using: C-h a bug report RET
produces the following list in Emacs 29.4:

debbugs-org-emacs-release-blocking-reports M-x ... RET
  Show the reports that are blocking an Emacs release.
lm-report-bug                 M-x ... RET
  Report a bug in the package currently being visited to its maintainer.
org-submit-bug-report         M-x ... RET
  Submit a bug report on Org via mail.
package-report-bug            M-x ... RET
  Prepare a message to send to the maintainers of a package.
report-emacs-bug              <menu-bar> <help-menu> <send-emacs-bug-report>
  Report a bug in GNU Emacs.

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The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.
- Geoffrey Chaucer, The Parliament of Birds.