Hi Max,
Max Nikulin <[email protected]> writes:
> The author suggests to install from github assets instead of official
> add-on catalog for some reason. Perhaps it is just survived since times
> when cb_thunderlink was not published yet.
My new version instructs to install the add-on from Thunderbird, with no
OS installation. It's simpler and safer.
>
> My idea was to push '("\\`mid:" . custom/browse-url-mid) to
> `browse-url-handlers' having (untested)
>
> (defun custom/browse-url-mid (url &optional _ignored)
> (browse-url
> (replace-regexp-in-string "\\`mid:" "thunderlink:/message-id=" url)))
>
> I am unsure concerning double slash after protocol since host name
> expected after double slash. At least KDE may try to resolve hostname
> and to distort URI. I hope, Message-ID never contains characters that
> may require percent encoding when used in query parameter value.
>
> `browse-url-xdg-open' had a lot of revisions before current
> `call-process' settled inside. It is the reason why I will prefer to
> avoid explicit calls to `start-process' (alternatives known to me are
> even worse) and to delegate as much as possible to `browse-url'.
My new version instructs to use standard "mid:" by just running Thunderbird.
> Since you suggest thunderlink: links instead of built-in mid:
I didn't realize that Thunderbird allows to open "mid:". I've simplified
the method.
I'm now using =cb_thunderlink= just to answer the following question, that
currently is on the wiki page:
you need to copy the value of the Message-ID
header, it should be possible with some add-on.
i.e. cb_thunderlink allows to build a full org link (link + description).
As it's still not clear to me how to configure browse-url, I'm still relying
on start-process.
See a new version of the patch.
Bruno
>From 89cef9d7acd85828ddfbb1375fac1e805bd03cea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruno BARBIER <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2023 20:33:22 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] org-faq: links with thunderbird: Add cb_thunderlink
---
org-faq.org | 36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 36 insertions(+)
diff --git a/org-faq.org b/org-faq.org
index 0410d368..4c2d0c8f 100644
--- a/org-faq.org
+++ b/org-faq.org
@@ -2051,6 +2051,42 @@ so the following recipe is obsolete:
Notice that this link uses Message-ID to reference a particular
message as well.
+*** Using the =cb_thunderlink= add-on
+The add-on =cb_thunderlink= for Thunderbird allows to generate direct
+links from emails inside Thunderbird. You can then teach org to repon
+these links.
+
+ 1. In Thunderbird, install the =cb_thunderlink= add-on.
+
+ 2. In the options page of the =cb_thunderlink= add-on, add a new link
+ type, name it =org= with the following value:
+
+ #+begin_example
+ [[mid:$msgid$][$author_name$: $subject$ ($date_iso$)]]
+ #+end_example
+
+ 3. In your emacs init file, add the following lines:
+ #+begin_src elisp
+ (defvar thunderbird-app nil
+ "The absolute path to your thunderbird application.")
+
+ (defun thunderbird-message-with-id (message-id)
+ "Open the given email. MESSAGE-ID is the message id."
+ (start-process "thunderbird" " *thunderbird*"
+ thunderbird-app
+ (concat "mid:" message-id)))
+
+ (org-link-set-parameters "mid" :follow 'thunderbird-open-message-with-id)
+ #+end_src
+
+
+In Thunderbird, to copy a link to an email into the clipboard, open
+the contextual menu, click the =cb_thunderlink= entry and choose the
+entry named =org=. Then paste the link in your org file, and, click it
+to re-open the email.
+
+
+
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