From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#7469: 24.0.50; report-emacs-bug is broken again (on Windows) Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 06:56:39 +0800 Message-ID: <878w0jtzrs.fsf@home.jasonrumney.net> References: <7C72A33785254FFCABC97991808229DD@us.oracle.com> <83ipzn95sd.fsf@gnu.org> <04EA26A6BF72450FA851B218BD26DB60@us.oracle.com> <83eiab92lw.fsf@gnu.org> <39F93AFD46694ABA97B1B2BA3DAC3EDC@us.oracle.com> <838w0j91m5.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1290554119 3093 80.91.229.12 (23 Nov 2010 23:15:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 23:15:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 7469@debbugs.gnu.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 24 00:15:15 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@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 1PL24w-0002xr-Bj for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=NESY3uxrLnGL3ujj/62odXa5f5c3BHqAkqWfJZeVVtEFQAn3p8vS1qqDYjzDzXth5D kev5feq/H15Wt+5Bado5CUa72O7RBrH1TG7yiFi+2ns/g+BNV5R4lVzcmJ+SKqgYA2BT y9dKyZgORCWKvXZVCzIq1cNi8DsEzwRinkoqM= Original-Received: by 10.91.199.3 with SMTP id b3mr7884322agq.186.1290553006800; Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:56:46 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from home.jasonrumney.net ([120.140.38.27]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v8sm4349764yhg.40.2010.11.23.14.56.44 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:56:46 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by home.jasonrumney.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2F27B1B9F; Wed, 24 Nov 2010 06:56:40 +0800 (MYT) In-Reply-To: (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:29:15 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 17:52:01 -0500 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:41853 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: >> It breaks report-emacs-bug, which uses the mailto: URLs. >> `browse-url-mail' simply uses Emacs to compose a mail message, which >> is of course useless when browse-url is called from mailclient.el >> because Emacs failed to find any better way of sending mail, and falls >> back to mailto:. > > So report-emacs-bug tries to determine whether Emacs can send mail, and > if it can't, it tries to open a browser, in the hope that it knows how > to send mail? In what situations does this occur? Why would it pop up a browser for a mailto: URL? Most systems will be configured to open a mail client for such URLs. I think the default URL handler for modern GNU/Linux desktops as well as Windows and Mac is capable of this.