Re: org-protocol and safari

[Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de>]

Matthew Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> writes:
> Sebastian Rose <sebastian_rose@gmx.de> writes:
>
>> Greg Newman <greg@20seven.org> writes:
>
>>> I did try to get it working with Firefox 3.x and it's not working.
>>> I followed the worg instructions (
>>> http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-protocol.php ) for FF and tried the
>>> verification links with no luck.
>>> Firefox just screams at me "Firefox doesn't know how to open this address,
>>> because the protocol (org-protocol) isn't associated with any program."
>>> 2.  Any clue why this isn't working?
>>
>>
>> As for FF, the instructions should work. See also:
>>
>>    http://kb.mozillazine.org/Register_protocol#Linux_and_Mac
>
> These instructions are incorrect. I can confirm that setting a protocol
> does not work in Firefox on Mac OS - there is a bug that's been around
> for a long time that prevents associating protocols with an application
> and/or path. See this mailing list post:
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/12883
>
> And this bug report:
>
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471724


Not sure if those informations are the end of all that... On Windows, as
on MAC (I think), protocols are not registered in FF itself too.
I think what we need is a MAC freak, who provides the apple script (or
what ever is used on MAC for such things), that installs the protocol
handler on that system (for FF, Safari, IE Mac version, Acrobat etc.).


Maybe this helps??

http://www.xmldatabases.org/WK/blog/1154_Handling_URL_schemes_in_Cocoa.item

That app would just have to call emacsclient..



> My solution for this bug was to install Arch Linux on my Macbook. ;)


Haha - Not everyone will want to do that I think :)




  Sebastian