On 29/05/2025 02:42, Christoph wrote:
On 5/28/25 17:29, Max Nikulin wrote:
and there's also an add-on (still working?) to add a button to easily
copy it.
https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-us/thunderbird/addon/copy-message-id/
I have checked it. Yes it is working on thunderbird 138.
It should be inconvenient to copy sender, recipient, subject, and date
separately.
(start-process "thunderbird" nil "thunderbird" (concat "mid:"
clean-path))))
Spawning an external process is tricky in Emacs. I suspect some issues
with the following scenario. No thunderbird is running, open link,
quit from Emacs. If I do not confuse function then prompt to kill
thunderbird should appear since it should be direct child of Emacs.
This is exactly what is happening. May be
(call-process "thunderbird" nil 0 nil (concat "mid:" path))
would be the solution to this?
The downside of `call-process' with 0 is that it is purely shoot and
forget approach and no error handling is possible. Unfortunately I can
not suggest a better Emacs function.
However I would consider using it indirectly:
(browse-url-default-browser (concat "mid:" path))
preferably by configuring `browse-url-handlers'. It should invoke
xdg-open and so desktop environment handler for URL scheme.
Unfortunately xdg-open does not use systemd-run in fallback when no
supported desktop environment is detected. I mean something like
systemd-run --user --slice=app.slice -- thunderbird MID_URL
(Side note: there is a chance that systemd D-Bus API may allow to catch
some errors to notify user in the case of failure)
P.S. If you have informative links describing what has happened with
cb_thunderlink in your browser history, please, post them. I have no
plans to touch my tools related to thunderbird till next major ESR
update will appear in Debian stable.
