From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott Randby Subject: Re: mailto link problem Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:12:16 -0500 Message-ID: <4EFCF3D0.4050509@gmail.com> References: <4EFCE398.4040407@gmail.com> <20420.1325199357@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:37547) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RgP92-0006xa-Px for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:12:21 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RgP91-0002pU-P5 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:12:20 -0500 Received: from mail-iy0-f169.google.com ([209.85.210.169]:43046) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RgP91-0002pP-JS for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:12:19 -0500 Received: by iacb35 with SMTP id b35so26453863iac.0 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:12:19 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20420.1325199357@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On 12/29/2011 05:55 PM, Nick Dokos wrote: > > One more thing - try the following from the command line: > > firefox --remote "openURL(mailto:srandby@gmail.com)" > > If that gets you back into emacs, then emacs is off the hook: a visit to > about:config in firefox is indicated. Good suggestion. I had already checked to make sure that Firefox would open a mailto url in Thunderbird, but I didn't do it via the command line. I'd never thought about running Firefox from the command line. Scott