Subject: bug#74467: 31.0.50; org-protocol emacsclient.desktop change is not fully functional

From: Ihor Radchenko <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2025 14:07:29 +0000

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> > > ...  Ihor
>> > > seemed to say that if this can be supported, there could be an
>> > > alternative patch for fixing this issue, and I'd like to see that
>> > > alternative patch to decide which one is simpler and/or more elegant.
>> > 
>> > See the attached.
>> > If Emacs can handle file URIs, we can simply use %U field code.
>>  ...
>> Thanks, but I think we need to turn on the url-handler-mode before
>> Emacs can visit files specified as file:// URIs.
>
> Ping!

But isn't `url-handler-mode' doing much more than just allowing URIs in
emacs/emacsclient arguments? Maybe one can make a more limited version
of url-handler-mode that would be safe to enable to by default?

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