GNU bug report logs - #3963
23.0.94; Emacs on nextstep/Mac OS X should handle mailto: URLs

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From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche <at> math.ntnu.no>
To: tlikonen <at> iki.fi
Cc: 3963 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#3963: 23.0.94; Emacs on nextstep/Mac OS X should handle
 mailto: URLs
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:38:53 -0500 (CDT)

+ Teemu Likonen <tlikonen <at> iki.fi>:

> As you noticed, currently Emacs doesn't handle mailto URLs. Here's my
> solution for the issue:
> 
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MailtoHandler

But that requires the use of emacsclient. How do you talk firefox,
safari, camino, opera, and vienna into running emacsclient in response
to a user clicking on a mailto: link? The first issue is for emacs to
actually receive the incoming message requesting the handling of the
mailto: url. I don't know how that can be accomplished, but note that
emacs already responds correctly to "open -a emacs filename". I assume
the basic messaging mechanism must be the same?

- Harald

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