Re: mailclient-send-it usage of browse-url

[Jeff Clough]

David Reitter <address@hidden> writes:

>> It does seem lame that it's not looking for Safari, but then I don't
>> know if it looks for IE on Windows.  This may be a philosophical point
>> and not a technical one, so for better or worse it just might not
>> happen.
>
> You are misinformed.  It will use Safari if that's what the system default 
> is.  It is not looking for any specific browser on OS X.  It is doing the 
> right thing and using the browser that the user has configured on their 
> system.  This is actually Safari on the Mac by default.

Ah, this makes more sense.

>> The overall issue of having Emacs get the right answer to "What is your
>> mail client?" might still ought to be addressed in a way that doesn't
>> rely on browsers at all, 
>
> Once more: as it is now, Emacs does not rely on browsers at all on the Mac in 
> its default configuration.
> It uses a system mechanism to handle arbitrary URLs, specifically, mailto: 
> URLs.  This does NOT invoke the browser.  It invokes the system's standard 
> mail client.  

So it throws a mailto: URL at the OS and the OS is responsible for
invoking the associated application?  If that is true, then that is very
cool.

Jeff