From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: mailclient-send-it usage of browse-url Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:46:03 +0200 Message-ID: References: <455E2F09-93A7-4CD1-BFC8-E5E6DCF73E65@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1271317884 16236 80.91.229.12 (15 Apr 2010 07:51:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 07:51:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Jeff Clough , "emacs-devel@gnu.org" To: David Reitter Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 15 09:51:22 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 1O2Jr5-0003z6-R1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 09:51:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43837 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O2Jr5-00071L-5K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 03:51:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1O2Jmy-0005s3-AW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 03:47:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46518 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O2JmW-0005lU-0s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 03:47:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O2Jm5-0003zt-Nn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 03:46:33 -0400 Original-Received: from ebb05.tieto.com ([131.207.168.36]:42221) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O2Jm5-0003yo-CC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 03:46:09 -0400 X-AuditID: 83cfa824-b7cebae00000797f-32-4bc6c43e7b51 Original-Received: from FIHGA-EXHUB01.eu.tieto.com ( [131.207.136.34]) by ebb05.tieto.com (SMTP Mailer) with SMTP id FB.B2.31103.E34C6CB4; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:46:07 +0300 (EEST) Original-Received: from uw000509 (10.48.99.3) by inbound.tieto.com (131.207.136.49) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 8.2.176.0; Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:46:06 +0300 In-Reply-To: <455E2F09-93A7-4CD1-BFC8-E5E6DCF73E65@gmail.com> (David Reitter's message of "Wed, 14 Apr 2010 16:25:51 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.1.95 (gnu/linux) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:123689 Archived-At: >>>>> "David" == David Reitter writes: David> Can you point to the code that does that? I probably have been jumping to conclusions based on a too cursory look at browse-url.el. I will do a more proper investigation on my mac when I get home and report back. >> If you are using emacs-w3m which I think is a quite >> reasonable thing to do, the mailto: hack fails. David> Why is it a hack again? I didn't mean any disrespect to the approach. I think I have seen others referring to it as a hack, even an unpretty one, but I am personally fine with it. I should perhaps also state for the record that this is not about helping me personally; I have something that works now. As I see it, the issue is with the default behaviour for which we have the goal of providing as robustly as possible a means of sending an email such that even a novice with an unconfigured emacs on darwin can send back a bug report. ------------------------+----------------------------------------------------- Christian Lynbech | christian #\@ defun #\. dk ------------------------+----------------------------------------------------- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - petonic@hal.com (Michael A. Petonic)