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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 16:06:07 +0300

> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
> From: Robert Pluim <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2023 10:00:00 +0200
> 
> >>>>> On Tue, 12 Sep 2023 20:46:54 -0700, Jim Porter <[email-masked]> said:
> 
>     Jim> On 9/12/2023 7:30 PM, [email-masked] 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 :-)

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