From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Changes 2009-07-15/16 in branch? Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:35:10 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? 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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:113382 Archived-At: --=-=-= Harald Hanche-Olsen writes: > + Richard Stallman : > >> We need to delete the "provider implementation" from Emacs 23.1. > > Agreed, I think ... One of those menu items is Services -> Emacs.app > -> Send Email to Selected Address, which works. On the other hand, > what does NOT work, but really SHOULD (this falls into the "glaring > deficiency" category), is to let emacs handle a mailto: URL. > > 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 --=-=-= Content-Type: text/x-sh Content-Disposition: inline; filename=emacs-url #!/bin/sh /usr/local/bin/emacsclient -a "" --eval "(browse-url \"$1\")" --=-=-= It should really be, for quoting reasons, /usr/local/bin/emacsclient -a "" --eval "(browse-url (pop argv))" "$1" but emacsclient's option handling is not similar enough to that of emacs yet to have this work. -- David Kastrup --=-=-=--