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23.0.94; Emacs on nextstep/Mac OS X should handle mailto: URLs

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From: Leo <sdl.web <at> gmail.com>
To: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen <at> iki.fi>
Cc: 3963 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche <at> math.ntnu.no>
Subject: bug#3963: 23.0.94; Emacs on nextstep/Mac OS X should handle mailto: URLs
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 20:29:21 +0100

On 2009-07-29 20:05 +0100, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> On 2009-07-29 13:38 (-0500), Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
>
>> Now click on a mailto: link in your favourite web browser, or else run
>> a command like this:  open mailto:nobody <at> example.com
>>
>> Notice that Emacs comes to the foreground, but nothing more happens.
>> What SHOULD happen is that Emacs opens a new draft email message
>> addressed to the named recipient.
>
> As you noticed, currently Emacs doesn't handle mailto URLs. Here's my
> solution for the issue:
>
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MailtoHandler

There are already a few functions to handle mailto in Emacs for example
url-mailto.

-- 
Leo's Emacs uptime: 49 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 40 seconds

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