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bug#38314: No /usr/share/applications mailto presence
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#38314: No /usr/share/applications mailto presence |
Date: |
Tue, 11 Aug 2020 15:05:30 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Gijs Hillenius <gijs@hillenius.net> writes:
> The sample file uses:
> Exec=emacs -f message-mailto %u
>
> Would this work as well?
> Exec=/usr/bin/emacsclient.emacs-snapshot -f message-mailto
>
> I'll experiment with this once it is included in the next snapshot for Debian.
Hm. No, it won't work, because -f in emacsclient means:
-f, --server-file=FILENAME
use TCP configuration file FILENAME for communication. This can
also be specified via the EMACS_SERVER_FILE environment vari‐
able.
So I think that would be
emacsclient -e (message-mailto) %u
?
Or does the Emacs -f thing hide under a different option in emacsclient?
Hm, no, that doesn't work, obviously, because message-mailto expects the
%u in command-line-args-left, and that's not the case here.
So it's
emacsclient -e '(message-mailto-1 \"%u\")'
which has major problems with string interpolation and would be very
fragile.
Would it make sense to add something to emacsclient/emacs-server to help
in this use case?
So a new switch, like "-E", which means "emulate as far as possible
'emacs -f'":
emacsclient -E message-mailto %u
In emacs-server, this would bind command-line-args-left to the remaining
parameters, and then funcall the function.
I'm kinda surprised that emacsclient doesn't have something like this
already?
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