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bug#57752: 28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me
From: |
Damien Cassou |
Subject: |
bug#57752: 28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me |
Date: |
Mon, 12 Sep 2022 20:31:27 +0200 |
Hi,
The file emacsclient-mail.desktop that is provided by Emacs (see below
for an excerpt) doesn't seem to work for me. I would like mailto: links
in the web browser to open with emacsclient but nothing happens. How to
reproduce:
1. start the Emacs daemon (if not already done)
2. go to
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-09/msg00320.html in
a non-Emacs web browser
3. click the "Eli Zaretskii" button after "reply via email to"
Expected: An Emacs client frame appears with a buffer in message mode
Actual: Nothing happens
If you try to reproduce and you get a different application opening to
compose your email, you might want to add the following to
~/.config/mimeapps.list:
[Default Applications]
x-scheme-handler/mailto=emacsclient-mail.desktop
It feels like launching my web browser from the terminal sometimes makes
it work, but that's not really reliable.
The freedesktop Desktop Entry Specification [1] contains:
Field codes must not be used inside a quoted argument, the result of
field code expansion inside a quoted argument is undefined.
It seems to me that the .desktop file Emacs provides does just that: use
a field code (%u) inside a quoted argument. I might be wrong in the
interpretation of the spec though as the next sentence in the spec seems
to contradict this interpretation.
Anyway, I found a way to always have it working:
1. create a file emacs-compose-email.sh that starts emacsclient
2. add the executable bit to the file
3. reference the shell script from emacsclient-mail.desktop
See below for the script and .desktop file. Another advantage of this
approach is that the desktop file becomes much simpler with much less
backslashes.
My question is: do you want a patch with this change?
emacs-compose-email.sh:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
emacsclient --alternate-editor= --eval "(message-mailto \"$1\")"
Working emacsclient-mail.desktop:
[Desktop Entry]
Exec=emacs-compose-email.sh %u
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/mailto
Name=Emacs (Mail, Client)
NoDisplay=true
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Version=1.4
Excerpt of the existing (non-working) emacsclient-mail.desktop:
[Desktop Entry]
Exec=sh -c "exec emacsclient --alternate-editor= --display=\\"\\$DISPLAY\\"
--eval \\\\(message-mailto\\\\ \\\\\\"%u\\\\\\"\\\\)"
Name=Emacs (Mail, Client)
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/mailto;
Actions=new-window;new-instance;
[Desktop Action new-window]
Name=New Window
Exec=emacsclient --alternate-editor= --create-frame --eval "(message-mailto
\\"%u\\")"
[Desktop Action new-instance]
Name=New Instance
Exec=emacs -f message-mailto %u
[1]:
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html#exec-variables
--
Damien Cassou
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another without
losing enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill
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Damien Cassou <=
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