Re: (message "Greedy org-protocol handler. Killing client.")

[Oleh Krehel <ohwoeowho@gmail.com>]

Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> writes:

> org-protocol works less than half the time now.
>
> i try it with the org-capture firefox extension on iceweasel.  i also
> try it with a manual bookmark created by some instruction somewhere.
>
> today every click puts this in my messages buffer:
>
> "Greedy org-protocol handler.  Killing client."
>
> could somebody please explain what this means?  i do not understand the code.

org-protocol works by advising `server-visit-files' in an obsolete way.
I encountered this problem this week when I tried to advice
`server-done' to do something clever with Itsalltext.  It seems the
`defadvice' on `server-visit-files' is incompatible with any other
advice in that vicinity. I would get "Greedy org-protocol handler.
Killing client." when I advised `server-done'. This error would
disappear immediately after I disabled the advice.

So I suggest examining your custom advises. And see if disabling some of
them fixes the problem.  And maybe someone could look into using
something better than `defadvice' in org-protocol.el.

    Oleh