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Re: mailclient-send-it usage of browse-url
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David Reitter |
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Re: mailclient-send-it usage of browse-url |
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Wed, 14 Apr 2010 09:25:51 -0400 |
On Apr 14, 2010, at 9:07 AM, <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> I do not about Windows, but on Mac you can (I believe) rely on the
> *presence* of sendmail just as much as on other UNIX like systems.
Yes, you can rely on the presence, but not on its function. Mail will be
swallowed in many cases, as I have pointed out, and that is true independently
of the system. (I only expect GNU/Linux users to be more savvy about their
system / Emacs configuration.)
>
> If it works out of
> the box, it only does so because somebody took the time to figure what
> the default should be on a Mac.
The default is flexible.
> In fact, looking at the default setup
> for browse-url on emacs23 , it does not seem to be working out of the
> box on a Mac. "browse-url.el" will search for a number of programs such
> as firefox or konqueror but not Safari (which is all you can rely on on
> a Mac) and if you do not have any of the browsers in your path (perhaps
> because you use some desktop environment menu rather than setting up
> path), it fails.
Can you point to the code that does that?
`browse-url-browser-function' is initialized (defcustom) and set to
`browse-url-default-macosx-browser' on a Mac, which is a function that calls
"open". That will do the right thing in all relevant cases of a http:// or
mailto: URLs.
The system keeps track of the user-preferred mail client and web browser.
Could you investigate why that doesn't work for you?
> If you are using emacs-w3m which I think is a quite
> reasonable thing to do, the mailto: hack fails.
Why is it a hack again?
It relies on accepted and standardized URLs. I have previously pointed out the
standard to you.
Brittle, maybe. But less brittle than most other solutions...
- mailclient-send-it usage of browse-url, Christian Lynbech, 2010/04/13
- Re: mailclient-send-it usage of browse-url, Jeff Clough, 2010/04/14
- Re: mailclient-send-it usage of browse-url, David Reitter, 2010/04/14
- Re: mailclient-send-it usage of browse-url, Jeff Clough, 2010/04/14
- Re: mailclient-send-it usage of browse-url, David Reitter, 2010/04/14
- Re: mailclient-send-it usage of browse-url, Lennart Borgman, 2010/04/14
- Re: mailclient-send-it usage of browse-url, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2010/04/14
- Re: mailclient-send-it usage of browse-url, christian.lynbech, 2010/04/15
- Re: mailclient-send-it usage of browse-url, Richard Stallman, 2010/04/15