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bug#57752: 28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me
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Jim Porter |
Subject: |
bug#57752: 28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me |
Date: |
Fri, 16 Sep 2022 12:33:05 -0700 |
On 9/16/2022 11:26 AM, Gregory Heytings wrote:
That would allow both of the following in .desktop files:
emacsclient --function my-function-taking-one-url %u
emacsclient --function my-function-taking-many-urls %U
Sure, and how would you use it say in shell scripts, in which these
%u/%U/%f/%F constructs do not exist?
That depends on the script. However, as an example, maybe you want a
'browse' alias that you can use from the shell (or a shell script) like
this:
browse https://gnu.org https://fsf.org
You might define that alias one of these ways (assuming 'eww-browse-url'
were enhanced to use 'command-line-args-left' like 'message-mailto'):
alias browse='firefox'
alias browse='emacs -f eww-browse-url'
alias browse='emacsclient --funcall eww-browse-url'
'--setq' has the disadvantage that you'd need some way to prepend
*each* URL/filename with it in the %U/%F cases.
What about --setq args "(list %U)"?
That wouldn't work, since .desktop files forbid %-expansions inside
quotes[1]. Even working around that, the expansion would look something
like this:
(list mailto:foo@bar.com ...)
Since want each argument to be a string (and wrapping quotes around each
element won't work for the same reason I previously mentioned), we'd
probably want a different syntax than the above. I wouldn't expect that
syntax to make a list of strings.
Adding '--function' to emacsclient also has the advantage that it's
already available for emacs,
No, emacs only has --funcall: call Emacs Lisp function FUNC with no
arguments.
Sorry, yes. I meant --funcall.
This would likely necessitate some changes to how emacsclient talks to
the main emacs process though, since I believe positional arguments to
emacsclient are currently always treated as file names to visit. For
"emacsclient --funcall" to work like "emacs --funcall", emacsclient
would have to let the main emacs process process at least some of the
arguments in the same manner as command-line arguments to "emacs" (i.e.
allow reading them via '(pop command-line-args-left)' or something similar).
(I also have an alternate strategy for addressing the original bug,
which I'll describe in a separate message so that this subthread doesn't
get too unwieldy.)
[1]
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s07.html
- bug#57752: 28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me, (continued)
- bug#57752: 28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me, Damien Cassou, 2022/09/16
- bug#57752: 28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me, Gregory Heytings, 2022/09/16
- bug#57752: 28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me, Damien Cassou, 2022/09/16
- bug#57752: 28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me, Gregory Heytings, 2022/09/16
- bug#57752: 28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me, Peter Oliver, 2022/09/16
- bug#57752: 28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me, Gregory Heytings, 2022/09/16
- bug#57752: 28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me, Jim Porter, 2022/09/16
- bug#57752: 28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me, Gregory Heytings, 2022/09/16
- bug#57752: 28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me,
Jim Porter <=
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- bug#57752: 28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me, Robert Pluim, 2022/09/18
- bug#57752: 28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me, Robert Pluim, 2022/09/16
- bug#57752: 28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me, Damien Cassou, 2022/09/16
- bug#57752: 28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me, Jim Porter, 2022/09/16
- bug#57752: 28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/09/18
- bug#57752: 28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me, Robert Pluim, 2022/09/18
- bug#57752: 28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/09/19
- bug#57752: 28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me, Jim Porter, 2022/09/18
- bug#57752: 28.1.91; emacsclient-mail.desktop doesn't work for me, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/09/19