From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Changes 2009-07-15/16 in branch?
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:31:44 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090730.083144.228392176.hanche@math.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ljm6mxn5.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>
+ David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>:
> Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no> writes:
>
> > On the mac, one can declare that application A should handle URL
> > scheme U. By default, mailto: URLs are handled by Mail.app, so that
> > clicking on a mailto: link on a web page causes Mail.app to open a
> > new draft message addressed to the given address. If I change this to
> > let emacs handle it, clicking on a mailto: link does activate emacs,
> > but nothing more happens.
> >
> > This is a "glaring deficiency" because, after all, clicking on mailto:
> > links on web pages is quite common, and if emacs cannot handle this,
> > we discourage users from using emacs for their mail.
> >
> > Should I file a bug report requesting this feature?
>
> What I use is a helper script that looks like [...]
Are you a Mac user? Your email header seems to indicate that you are
primarily a gnu/linux user. On the Mac, there is no way that I can see
to talk Firefox into running a script or arbitrary program to handle a
mailto: URL. On the contrary, the mechanism in place involves
activating a fullblown Mac application, then sending it an Apple event
indicating the desired action. I suspect, though I haven't checked,
that the same is true of Opera, Camino, and Safari. This is the way
applications communicate on Mac OS X. I don't see that any shell
script is gonna work around this.
There *is* one possible workaround that I haven't checked, though:
Make a small, simple application that knows just enough to act as an
application, receive the Apple event, and run emacsclient. Most users
are going to find this awkward and unnatural.
The biggest problem is to find out what needs to be done. I dug around
a bit in nsterm.m and ns-win.el to try to figure out how the nextstep
event loop works, but not knowing how to read Objective C turns out to
be too big an obstacle. I think we need a real expert to look at it.
Maybe Adrian Robert is the only one who can do it? I don't know if he
left it out because he didn't think of it, or because he couldn't
figure it out either.
- Harald
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-30 13:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-23 11:22 Changes 2009-07-15/16 in branch? Adrian Robert
2009-07-23 12:46 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-07-23 15:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-24 0:23 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-07-24 1:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-24 1:27 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-07-24 1:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-24 2:20 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-07-24 3:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-24 3:35 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-07-24 3:44 ` Jason Rumney
2009-07-24 4:12 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-07-25 2:13 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-07-26 2:22 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-26 2:35 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-07-26 3:31 ` Miles Bader
2009-07-26 3:45 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-07-27 2:44 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-27 3:20 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-07-27 17:41 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-27 18:41 ` Clifford Wulfman
2009-07-28 4:37 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-28 13:18 ` Clifford Wulfman
2009-07-28 17:14 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-28 18:39 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2009-07-28 20:31 ` Ian Eure
2009-08-01 3:21 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-01 4:10 ` Ian Eure
2009-08-01 6:28 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-08-02 4:44 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-28 22:05 ` James Cloos
2009-07-29 20:13 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-29 22:05 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-07-30 7:53 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-07-30 14:01 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-31 1:56 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-07-27 20:14 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-07-28 6:10 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
[not found] ` <EFBC3E4E-8739-4B16-8797-D9CA8BC290CD@gmail.com>
2009-07-28 20:33 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2009-07-28 0:53 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-07-28 17:14 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-24 19:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-29 0:22 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-07-29 1:12 ` Chong Yidong
2009-07-29 1:18 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-07-29 4:48 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-07-29 1:29 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-07-24 14:34 ` Adrian Robert
2009-07-25 1:15 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-07-25 4:55 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-25 16:59 ` Adrian Robert
2009-07-27 2:43 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-27 3:22 ` Adrian Robert
[not found] ` <E1MW1sm-0000lL-4K@fencepost.gnu.org>
2009-07-29 14:08 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2009-07-29 17:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-30 7:35 ` David Kastrup
2009-07-30 13:31 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen [this message]
2009-07-28 18:25 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2009-07-29 2:34 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-07-29 2:41 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-07-29 2:56 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2009-07-29 3:33 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-07-29 20:14 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-29 20:26 ` Chad Brown
2009-07-30 15:35 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-30 16:37 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2009-07-29 20:31 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2009-07-30 15:35 ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-30 16:22 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2009-08-01 3:21 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-01 7:45 ` CHENG Gao
2009-08-01 9:36 ` CHENG Gao
2009-08-02 4:43 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-02 7:06 ` CHENG Gao
2009-08-03 16:17 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-03 20:03 ` CHENG Gao
2009-07-29 14:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-27 0:35 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2009-07-27 3:12 ` Adrian Robert
2009-07-29 3:23 ` Sean O'Rourke
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