From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Rafael <rvf0068@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: org-protocol is bitrotting away
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:34:26 -0600
Message-ID: <8739e7jral.fsf@gmail.com>
References: <20111101194403.GA4130@keller.hars.de>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain
Return-path: <emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org>
Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:43434)
	by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71)
	(envelope-from <rvf0068@gmail.com>) id 1RLOmm-00048L-Tq
	for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:34:34 -0400
Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71)
	(envelope-from <rvf0068@gmail.com>) id 1RLOml-000656-Cj
	for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:34:32 -0400
Received: from mail-yw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.213.41]:39826)
	by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71)
	(envelope-from <rvf0068@gmail.com>) id 1RLOml-00064u-8i
	for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:34:31 -0400
Received: by ywa17 with SMTP id 17so8872012ywa.0
	for <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>; Tue, 01 Nov 2011 17:34:30 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <20111101194403.GA4130@keller.hars.de> (Florian Hars's message of
	"Tue, 1 Nov 2011 20:44:03 +0100")
List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." <emacs-orgmode.gnu.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/options/emacs-orgmode>,
	<mailto:emacs-orgmode-request@gnu.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode>
List-Post: <mailto:emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
List-Help: <mailto:emacs-orgmode-request@gnu.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode>,
	<mailto:emacs-orgmode-request@gnu.org?subject=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

Florian Hars <florian@hars.de> writes:

> Of cousre my first error was to try to do something productive on a
> current ubuntu, but since they have again broken the canonical way to
> configure protocol handlers, 90% of all howtos describing how to
> configure org-protocol plain don't work on ubuntu 11.10. gconftool
> does no longer work, setting things in about:config in firefox has no
> effect, the current season's incantantion is to put
>
> [Desktop Entry]
> Name=org-protocol
> Exec=emacsclient %U
> Type=Application
> Terminal=false
> Categories=System;
> MimeType=x-scheme-handler/org-protocol;
>
> into ~/.local/share/applications/org-protocol.desktop and then run
> update-desktop-database .local/share/applications/ , as mentioned before:
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/41733

Hmm. With Ubuntu 11.10 and Firefox that came with it, these steps were
not enough. I had Firefox asking for the application to open
org-protocol links, and choosing 'org-protocol' did not work, as it had
in Natty. However, choosing '/usr/bin/emacsclient' for the application,
worked for me.

> More serious is the problen that firefox 7.0.1 steadfastly refuses
> to set location.href to the URIs required by org-protocol, it throws
> rather scary looking exceptions if the result of
> encodeURIComponent(location.href) in the URI does not appear after a
> question mark. I sort of got it working  by changing the URI to 
> "org-protocol://capture://?x="+encodeURIComponent(l)+"/"+...
> and then added the same three characters in
> org-protocol-check-filename-for-protocol:
>      (regexp-quote (plist-get (cdr prolist) :protocol)) ":/+\\(\\?x=\\)?")))
>
> - Florian.