Hi Max,
Max Nikulin <maniku...@gmail.com> writes: > A have prepared an alternative patch. Let me know if have suggestions, > objections, or if you prefer to proceed with another revision of your > patch. Looks good to me. > It seems you had no plan to polish your Org and system configuration to > such degree. Not that one, that I'm using only when forced to use win32! (else, I'm a very happy user of notmuch) Thanks Max! Bruno > From a1b3a81bbc11fd2f55096cc2e29f97797b80b915 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Max Nikulin <maniku...@gmail.com> > Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2023 21:49:06 +0700 > Subject: [PATCH] org-faq.org: Recommend cb_thunderlink Thunderbird add-on > > * org-faq.org (Thunderbird emails): Add CUSTOM_ID property to have > stable anchor during HTML export. Recommend cb_thunderlink extension as a > means to generate mid: links and to handle existing thunderlink: ones. > Add a note that on Windows Thunderbird should register itself as a > handler of the mid: protocol. > > Thanks to Bruno Barbier for discussion on the emacs-orgmode > mailing list. > --- > org-faq.org | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- > 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/org-faq.org b/org-faq.org > index 0410d368..a7db75c1 100644 > --- a/org-faq.org > +++ b/org-faq.org > @@ -1999,13 +1999,16 @@ ** Can I use CamelCase links? > consult the > [[https://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-wikinodes.html][documentation]]. > > ** Can I create links to Thunderbirds emails? > +:PROPERTIES: > +:CUSTOM_ID: mid-url-handler > +:END: > > Thunderbird-91 and later versions support =mid:= URI scheme proposed > -many years ago, see > -[[https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2392.html][RFC 2392 - Content-ID and > Message-ID Uniform Resource Locators]] > -for details. To create a link you need to copy the value of the > -Message-ID header, it should be possible with some add-on. As the > -last resort you may obtain the identifier by opening message source > +many years ago in > +[[https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2392.html][RFC 2392 - Content-ID and > Message-ID Uniform Resource Locators]]. > +To create a link you need to copy the value of the Message-ID header. > +It requires installing some add-on, see =cb_thunderlink= example below. > +As the last resort you may obtain the identifier by opening message source > (=Ctrl+U=). Message-ID resembles email address but has a unique > string in the local (user) part. Remove angle brackets and prepend > the inner part with =mid:= to create a link. A command to open the > @@ -2034,6 +2037,10 @@ ** Can I create links to Thunderbirds emails? > [Default Applications] > x-scheme-handler/mid=thunderbird.desktop; > #+END_EXAMPLE > +On Windows ensure that Thunderbird is installed as default handler > +for URI protocols related to mail. This approach allows to have > +uniform handler withing Emacs, including > +[[https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Goto-Address-mode.html][~goto-address-mode~]]. > > Instead of calling ~browse-url~ and setting up the scheme handler > you may launch thunderbird directly. It is a bit tricky in Emacs, > @@ -2044,12 +2051,26 @@ ** Can I create links to Thunderbirds emails? > the link: > : thunderbird -mail > 'imap-message://user_name%40gmail....@imap.googlemail.com/INBOX?messageId=ka42mn$mn9$1...@ger.gmane.org' > > +There is > +[[https://addons.thunderbird.net/thunderbird/addon/cb_thunderlink/][=cb_thunderlink= > Thunderbird add-on]] > +that allows to generate links accordingly to configurable template, e.g. > +: [[mid:$msgid$][$author_name$: $subject$ ($date_iso$)]] > +See the > +[[https://list.orgmode.org/63d01412.050a0220.9611.9...@mx.google.com/][discussion]] > +on the emacs-orgmode mailing list. > +Additionally the extension may open messages using =thunderlink:= > +and =cbthunderlink:= protocols however it requires installing > +of a helper application. These URI schemes may be registered in Org > +just as it is suggested for =mid:= links above. > + > The ThunderLink add-on recommended earlier did not work since > -transition of Thunderbird from XUL add-ons to WebExtensions, > +transition of Thunderbird-78 from XUL add-ons to WebExtensions, > so the following recipe is obsolete: > [[http://list.orgmode.org/ka42mn$mn9$1...@ger.gmane.org][from Christoph > Herzog: Re: Linking to Thunderbird (correction)]]. > -Notice that this link uses Message-ID to reference a particular > -message as well. > +To open earlier created =thunderlink:= links either > +install =cb_thunderlink= add-on or add to ~browse-url-handlers~ alist > +a function that extracts Message-ID and passes it to =mid:= protocol > +handler. > > * Plain Lists > :PROPERTIES: > -- > 2.25.1
