From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Gnus to handle news: and mailto: URLs from external sources?
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 21:02:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <85k69uzkgh.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2odz6bp6g.fsf@kurt.swanson>
Kurt Swanson <direct@reply.not.desired> writes:
> I've been a heavy Gnus user for years[*] (some of the ancient ones may
> remember me), as well as a big fan of gnuserv, which allows one to
> call emacs from command lines, scripts, etc. I.e. I have *one* emacs
> (process) and gnus started immediately upon logging in, and they run
> perpetually until reboot.
>
> I recently discovered I could mangle firefox into running an external
> program for any URIs I wanted (news:, mailto:, magnet:, screw-you:,
> etc.) Of interest here are the first two. Thus I can script
> something to send to gnus via gnuserv. Obviously I would like to
> handle all the extensions (for example "?subject=xxx" for mailto:) Has
> anyone attempted this before? Any pointers?
>
> [*] I swear to "god" I have not, and will not use outlook,
> thunderbird, webmail or any other crap out there.
Well, just configure something like
/usr/bin/emacsclient -ne (browse-url"%r")
as your mailer command (be sure to use spaces only where I wrote them).
And
/usr/bin/emacsclient %t
as your textarea command
You can probably do this by typing the URL
about:config
into Firefox.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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2006-04-12 19:02 ` David Kastrup [this message]
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2006-04-12 19:10 ` Karl Kleinpaste
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