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

From: Björn Bidar <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2025 20:52:22 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> From: Ihor Radchenko <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [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?
>
> That would be also fine by me.

What would that look like? Could that be like suggested earlier to be a
version only allowing local URIs?