From: Marius Hofert <marius.hofert@math.ethz.ch>
To: gnu.emacs.gnus@googlegroups.com
Cc: info-gnus-english@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to have 'mailto' (clicking addresses) open a new email in Gnus?
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:46:04 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <455ddb1b-c17f-407d-b876-a05cf630867a@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.6737.1344626097.855.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
Dear Charles,
It works great, thanks. The only thing I realized is if Emacs is closed, clicking a link does not open Emacs (instead, if Emacs is open, then clicking a link openes Gnus etc.). Do you know a solution to this?
Cheers,
Marius
On Friday, August 10, 2012 9:13:48 PM UTC+2, Charles Philip Chan wrote:
> Marius Hofert writes:
>
>
>
> > Sometimes, email addresses on websites are links, which, when clicked,
>
> > open a new email (with corresponding address) in the default email
>
> > program. I figured out that Firefox has a setting (Preferences ->
>
> > Applications -> mailto) but how can I set it to open a new email in
>
> > Gnus?
>
>
>
> You need a script and set Firefox's mailto handler to use it. For
>
> example:
>
>
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> mailaddr="`echo $1 | cut -d : -f 2`"
>
> emacsclient -n --eval "(compose-mail-other-frame \"$mailaddr\" \"$2\")"
>
>
>
> Charles
>
>
>
> --
>
> "I once witnessed a long-winded, month-long flamewar over the use of
>
> mice vs. trackballs...It was very silly."
>
> (By Matt Welsh)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-10 23:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-10 18:36 Marius Hofert
2012-08-10 19:13 ` Charles Philip Chan
[not found] ` <mailman.6737.1344626097.855.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2012-08-10 23:28 ` Marius Hofert
2012-08-10 23:46 ` Marius Hofert [this message]
2012-08-10 23:59 ` Charles Philip Chan
[not found] ` <mailman.6753.1344643232.855.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2012-08-11 6:13 ` Marius Hofert
2012-08-11 8:48 ` Charles Philip Chan
[not found] ` <mailman.6764.1344675537.855.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2012-08-11 16:33 ` Marius Hofert
2012-08-11 18:26 ` Charles Philip Chan
[not found] ` <mailman.6802.1344709625.855.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2012-08-11 20:11 ` Marius Hofert
2012-08-11 5:12 ` Teemu Likonen
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