On Wed, 12 Nov 2014 08:56:07 +0000, alister wrote: > On Tue, 11 Nov 2014 17:35:11 -0800, Ethan Furman wrote: > >> On 11/11/2014 05:08 PM, Ben Finney wrote: >>> Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> writes: >>> >>>> My wife (using a Win7 machine) will be on a web page that has a link >>>> to mail somebody. She clicks on it, and it opens the currently >>>> installed but unused Thunderbird. >>>> >>>> Ideally, what would happen is a new window/tab would open to gmail >>>> with a new compose window with the email address in place and the >>>> cursor in the subject line. >>> >>> What is the Python question? I can't see anywhere that you would be >>> using Python code to address this. >> >> Really? Huh. >> >> Okay, the explicit Python question: Clicking on a mail link in a web >> browser can start an external program. I would like that external >> program to be a Python script that: opens a new tab in the currently >> running browser (or a new default browser window), loads up the default >> web mail client (or one specified if there is no way to know/have a >> default), navigates to the compose pane (or starts there if possible), >> enters in the email address from the link that was passed to it, and, >> if not too much more, move the cursor to the subject field. >> >> Surely this can be done in Python. > > any chance you could fix your broken news reader?
Apologies, all posts seem broken today. I am not sure of the cause yet -- Boren's Laws: (1) When in charge, ponder. (2) When in trouble, delegate. (3) When in doubt, mumble. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list