Re: mailto link issue in 9.5.5 and 9.6.6

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net>]

Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> writes:

>> May you elaborate? (Or, better, send a patch)
>
> The typo in https://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.html#mailto-links
>
> browse-url~browser-function
> ----------^

Fixed.
https://git.sr.ht/~bzg/worg/commit/60bed811

> Looking at 
> https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=c4adfbae24d9
> Allow for custom URL handlers in browse-url.
> (included into Emacs-28)
>
>> +(defun browse-url--mailto (url &rest args)
>> +  "Calls `browse-url-mailto-function' with URL and ARGS."
>> +  (funcall browse-url-mailto-function url args))
>
> I decided that it is consistent with
>
>>    nil("mailto:srandby@gmail.com" (nil))
>>    browse-url--mailto("mailto:srandby@gmail.com" nil)
>
> when `browse-url-mailto-function' is set to nil. However docstring to 
> this variable allows nil (perhaps there is really an Emacs bug). Now I 
> am puzzled why setting `browse-url-mailto-function' to 
> `browse-url-default-browser' does not help. I have no idea what should 
> be suggested to users instead of nil.

This is Emacs bug that should be reported.
I do not think that we need to document every workaround for Emacs bugs.
Especially given that Emacs 29 is just around the corner.

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