bug#65902: 29.0.92; emacsclient-mail.desktop fails due to complicated escaping

[Robert Pluim]

>>>>> On Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:06:07 +0300, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> said:

    >> Cc: sbaugh@catern.com, 65902@debbugs.gnu.org
    >> From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
    >> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 10:00:00 +0200
    >> 
    >> >>>>> On Tue, 12 Sep 2023 20:46:54 -0700, Jim Porter 
<jporterbugs@gmail.com> said:
    >> 
    Jim> On 9/12/2023 7:30 PM, sbaugh@catern.com wrote:
    >> >> tags 65902 + patch
    >> >> quit
    >> >> This patch avoids the complicated scripting needed for
    >> >> emacsclient-mail.desktop by adding a new flag to emacsclient, 
--funcall,
    >> >> which mirrors emacs --funcall and allows emacsclient-mail.desktop to 
be
    >> >> basically the same as emacs-mail.desktop.
    >> 
    Jim> I think this is actually the same as the (very long) bug#57752, so
    Jim> thanks for working on this. (It was on my list of things to get to,
    Jim> but I just haven't had time.)
    >> 
    >> 57752 got bogged down in design paralysis :-)

    Eli> And where do you think we will get here, if we retrace all the
    Eli> arguments and counter-arguments voiced there?

I was not intending to do that, I was intending to advocate for
Spencerʼs work to go in pretty much as-is (modulo calling it '--apply'
rather than '--funcall').

Robert
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