In general report-emacs-bug usually depends on working mail system being set up, and despite an e-mail being sent off, the function doesn't respect the user's system-wide choice of an e-mail application.
The code below is adapted from what we use in Aquamacs Emacs. It extends the current functionality of emacsbug.el by defining two bug reporting methods: internal and external. report-emacs-bug-externally-p is used to decide about the method, and as you can see, the setting depends on the value of browse-url- browser-function right now. It might be good to think of a better check here.
To prepare an external e-mail, we use a mailto: URL, which is handled by the underlying system / window-manager or the default browser. Last time I checked, it worked fine on a KDE installation (GNU/Linux, RH8) with Mozilla. Foreseeable problems are caused by older browser versions that can't handle long URLs. But given that reporting doesn't work at all (and fails silently) on OS X (what's the status in the Windows port?), I found this to be the lesser evil in Aquamacs.
If there is sufficient interest and approval, I'd be happy to convert the below code into a patch for emacsbug.el.
;; aquamacs-bug.el (modified for CVS Emacs) ;; Author: adapted from emacsbug.el by K. Shane Hartman ;; Maintainer: David Reitter ;; Keywords: mac bug report;; Last change: $Id: aquamacs-bug.el,v 1.6 2005/06/27 11:43:03 davidswelt Exp $
;; This file is part of Aquamacs Emacs ;; http://www.aquamacs.org/ ;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify ;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by ;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) ;; any later version. ;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, ;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of ;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the ;; GNU General Public License for more details. ;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License ;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the ;; Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, ;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. ;; Copyright (C) 1985, 1994, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002 ;; Free Software Foundation, Inc. ;; Copyright (C) 2005, David Reitter (require 'emacsbug) (setq report-emacs-bug-address "bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org") (setq report-emacs-bug-pretest-address "emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org") (defvar report-emacs-bug-cc-list nil "List of e-mail addresses to cc when reporting bugs.") (defun report-emacs-bug-externally-p () "Returns non-nil if an external mail client is to be used in order to report bugs. The decision is based on the browse-url function used, because we leave it to the underlying system or the HTML to bring up the appropriate mail client." (member browse-url-browser-function '(browse-url-mozilla browse-url-netscape browse-url-galeon browse-url-epiphany browse-url-netscape browse-url-kde browse-url-default-windows-browser browse-url-default-macosx-browser browse-url-gnome-moz ) ) ) (defun report-emacs-bug-print-preamble (address) (unless report-emacs-bug-no-explanations ;; Insert warnings for novice users.(insert "This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation,\n")
(let ((pos (point)))
(insert "not to your local site managers!")
(put-text-property pos (point) 'face 'highlight))
(insert "\nPlease write in ")
(let ((pos (point)))
(insert "English")
(put-text-property pos (point) 'face 'highlight))
(insert " if possible, because the Emacs maintainers
usually do not have translators to read other languages for them.\n\n")
(insert (format "Your bug report will be posted to the %s
mailing list"
address))
(insert " and possibly to the gnu.emacs.bug news group.\n\n")
)
(insert "Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug\n"
"and the precise symptoms of the bug:")
)
(defun report-emacs-bug-print-debug-log (&optional recent-keys)
(insert "In " (emacs-version) "\n")
(if (fboundp 'x-server-vendor)
(condition-case nil
(insert "Distributor `" (x-server-vendor) "', version "
(mapconcat 'number-to-string (x-server-version) ".") "\n")
(error t)))
(if (and system-configuration-options
(not (equal system-configuration-options "")))
(insert "configured using `configure "
system-configuration-options "'\n\n"))
(insert "Important settings:\n")
(mapcar
'(lambda (var)
(insert (format " value of $%s: %s\n" var (getenv var))))
'("LC_ALL" "LC_COLLATE" "LC_CTYPE" "LC_MESSAGES"
"LC_MONETARY" "LC_NUMERIC" "LC_TIME" "LANG"))
(insert (format " locale-coding-system: %s\n" locale-coding-system))
(insert (format " default-enable-multibyte-characters: %s\n"
default-enable-multibyte-characters))
(insert "\n")
(insert (format "Major mode: %s\n"
(buffer-local-value 'mode-name from-buffer)))
(insert "\n")
(insert "Minor modes in effect:\n")
(dolist (mode minor-mode-list)
(and (boundp mode) (buffer-local-value mode from-buffer)
(insert (format " %s: %s\n" mode
(buffer-local-value mode from-buffer)))))
(insert "\n")
(insert "Recent input:\n")
(let ((before-keys (point)))
(insert (mapconcat (lambda (key)
(if (or (integerp key)
(symbolp key)
(listp key))
(single-key-description key)
(prin1-to-string key nil)))
(or recent-keys (recent-keys))
" "))
(save-restriction
(narrow-to-region before-keys (point))
(goto-char before-keys)
(while (progn (move-to-column 50) (not (eobp)))
(search-forward " " nil t)
(insert "\n"))))
(let ((message-buf (get-buffer "*Messages*")))
(if message-buf
(let (beg-pos
(end-pos message-end-point))
(with-current-buffer message-buf
(goto-char end-pos)
(forward-line -10)
(setq beg-pos (point)))
(insert "\n\nRecent messages:\n")
(insert-buffer-substring message-buf beg-pos end-pos))
)
)
)
(defun report-emacs-bug-externally ( topic recent-keys address)
"Report a bug using the default mail agent. "
(let ( (from-buffer (current-buffer))
user-point prompt-beg-point message-end-point)
(setq message-end-point
(with-current-buffer (get-buffer-create "*Messages*")
(point-max-marker)))
(with-temp-buffer
(setq prompt-beg-point (point))
(report-emacs-bug-print-preamble address)
(setq report-emacs-bug-text-prompt
(buffer-substring prompt-beg-point (point)))
(insert "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n(insert your text here)\n\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n")
(report-emacs-bug-print-debug-log recent-keys)
;; open in mail program
;; from here on, we have no control over what's going to happen.
(browse-url (format "mailto:%s\?&subject=%s&body=%s%s";
address
(if topic (url-encode-string topic) "")
(url-encode-string (buffer-string))
(apply 'concat (mapcar
(lambda (a) (concat "&cc=" a))
report-emacs-bug-cc-list))
)
)
)
)
)
(defun report-emacs-bug-internally (topic recent-keys address)
"Report a bug using the internal mail system via ``compose-mail''"
(let ((from-buffer (current-buffer))
user-point prompt-beg-point message-end-point)
(setq message-end-point
(with-current-buffer (get-buffer-create "*Messages*")
(point-max-marker)))
(compose-mail address
topic)
;; The rest of this does not execute
;; if the user was asked to confirm and said no.
(rfc822-goto-eoh)
(forward-line 1)
(let ((signature (buffer-substring (point) (point-max))))
(delete-region (point) (point-max))
(insert signature)
(backward-char (length signature)))
(setq prompt-beg-point (point))
(report-emacs-bug-print-preamble address)
(setq report-emacs-bug-text-prompt
(buffer-substring prompt-beg-point (point)))
(insert "\n\n")
(setq user-point (point))
(insert "\n\n\n")
(report-emacs-bug-print-debug-log recent-keys)
;; This is so the user has to type something
;; in order to send easily.
(use-local-map (nconc (make-sparse-keymap) (current-local-map)))
(define-key (current-local-map) "\C-c\C-i" 'report-emacs-bug-info)
(unless report-emacs-bug-no-explanations
(with-output-to-temp-buffer "*Bug Help*"
(if (eq mail-user-agent 'sendmail-user-agent)
(princ (substitute-command-keys
"Type \\[mail-send-and-exit] to send the bug report.\n")))
(princ (substitute-command-keys
"Type \\[kill-buffer] RET to cancel (don't send it).\n"))
(terpri)
(princ (substitute-command-keys
"Type \\[report-emacs-bug-info] to visit in Info the Emacs
Manual section
about when and how to write a bug report,
and what information to supply so that the bug can be fixed.
Type SPC to scroll through this section and its subsections."))))
;; Make it less likely people will send empty messages.
(make-local-variable 'mail-send-hook)
(add-hook 'mail-send-hook 'report-emacs-bug-hook)
(save-excursion
(goto-char (point-max))
(skip-chars-backward " \t\n")
(make-local-variable 'report-emacs-bug-orig-text)
(setq report-emacs-bug-orig-text (buffer-substring (point-min)
(point))))
(goto-char user-point)))
(defun report-emacs-bug (topic &optional recent-keys)
"Report a bug in GNU Emacs.
Prompts for bug subject. Either leaves you in a mail buffer
or brings up an external mail client."
;; This strange form ensures that (recent-keys) is the value before
;; the bug subject string is read.
(interactive (reverse (list (recent-keys) (read-string "Bug
Subject: "))))
(let ((address
;; If there are four numbers in emacs-version, this is a pretest
;; version.
(if (string-match "\\..*\\..*\\." emacs-version)
report-emacs-bug-pretest-address
report-emacs-bug-address)
)
)
(if (report-emacs-bug-externally-p)
(report-emacs-bug-externally topic recent-keys address)
(report-emacs-bug-internally topic recent-keys address)
)
)
)
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