From: David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>
Cc: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fixing report-emacs-bug
Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 20:21:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6203393C-6FEE-48A3-9D7B-ECACD8341312@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1DoUFs-0002ED-6a@fencepost.gnu.org>
On 1 Jul 2005, at 23:45, Richard M. Stallman wrote:
> I thought about this, but the thing is: the external bug reporting
> facility will run the mail client and cause it to start a new
> message
> editor. If we changed sendmail.el, we would present users with the
> internal editor first (for bug-reporting), then show them the
> same e-
> mail again in their external editor. That'd be confusing.
>
> Maybe, but I think suitable messages could avoid the confusion.
What about using the APIs provided by the various systems to send e-
mail?
On Windows, it's MAPI - on Unix it's generally sendmail, and I don't
know if there is a special one on the Mac.
> Yet, one could augment compose-mail to start the external
> agent. But
> I assume such changes would have knock-on effects that would be
> best
> considered after the release. Right?
>
> Not necessarily. If it is a completely new path of control flow,
> and it only gets used on the Mac, it won't break anything.
Who would use that?
People that use Emacs for e-mail will certainly want to set up their
postfix system and not compose e-mails in Emacs and then editing it
in an external e-mail client before it's sent off. Or are there
packages that use sendmail a lot? Do people use Emacs for certain non-
regular e-mail? Then, I would certainly see why this would make a lot
of sense. And we should realize it as a general option, which could
be on by default only on the Mac. I'd be happy to take a look at that.
Also, I posted some ideas regarding sendmail (and checking whether
it's live) in my previous post.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-03 19:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-30 10:15 Fixing report-emacs-bug David Reitter
2005-06-30 19:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-07-03 19:14 ` David Reitter
2005-07-04 6:16 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-04 10:07 ` David Reitter
2005-07-04 10:24 ` Jan D.
2005-07-04 16:48 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-04 15:16 ` Joakim Verona
2005-07-04 16:03 ` David Reitter
2005-07-04 17:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-07-04 17:46 ` David Reitter
2005-07-04 18:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-07-04 18:49 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-07-04 19:34 ` Jason Rumney
2005-07-04 19:52 ` David Reitter
2005-07-04 22:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-07-05 2:38 ` Miles Bader
2005-07-05 4:33 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <E1Do6bF-0001Uq-3j@fencepost.gnu.org>
2005-07-01 10:31 ` David Reitter
2005-07-01 22:45 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-07-03 19:21 ` David Reitter [this message]
2005-07-03 20:52 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-07-04 6:17 ` Richard M. Stallman
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