From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David De La Harpe Golden Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: mailclient-send-it usage of browse-url Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:58:26 +0100 Message-ID: <4BC61E62.4000204@harpegolden.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1271276931 545 80.91.229.12 (14 Apr 2010 20:28:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:28:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" , christian.lynbech@tieto.com To: Jeff Clough Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 14 22:28:49 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O29Ca-0005ZG-6U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 22:28:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51165 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O29CZ-0004Pz-KH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:28:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O28jQ-0000QH-P3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:58:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=41851 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O28jL-0000LU-IP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:58:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O28jJ-0000FL-E7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:58:35 -0400 Original-Received: from harpegolden.net ([65.99.215.13]:42543) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O28jH-0000E9-C3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:58:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [87.198.54.194] (87-198-54-194.ptr.magnet.ie [87.198.54.194]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "David De La Harpe Golden", Issuer "David De La Harpe Golden Personal CA rev 3" (verified OK)) by harpegolden.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AA45964C; Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:58:28 +0100 (IST) User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20091109) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:123663 Archived-At: 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.