I meant CTRL-click, sorry.
Yes, it is nice that the 'mailto//' ... schema(?) works as well.
I have previously mentioned that the treatment of 'file://' is a bit iffy
... it does not work as expected in all cases (for me, under Linux). It
would be nice to sort things out so that I could past a file link
(preferably with spaces and non-ASCII characters) into Leo and have a
CTRL-click do 'xdg-open' appropriately. I started looking into where the
current limitations/non-conformities lie but it was a bit too much of a
twisty maze of passages for me at the time.
J^n
On Tuesday, November 25, 2025 at 4:23:00 AM UTC [email protected] wrote:
> Ha! I didn't think of trying that. Control-click worked for me. Tres
> cool. Double clicking didn't do anything; CTRL-Click opened my email client
> right directly.
>
> On Monday, November 24, 2025 at 6:21:33 PM UTC-5 jkn wrote:
>
>> one reason I never got around to it is that in my setup at least,
>> double-clicking on a link:
>>
>> mailto://[email protected]
>>
>> causes the browser to open my mail client similarly. So that is something
>> similar...
>>
>> J^n
>>
>>
>> On Monday, November 24, 2025 at 11:19:12 PM UTC jkn wrote:
>>
>>> Nice - I have been meaning to write something myself like this myself,
>>> so thanks Thomas
>>>
>>> Jon N
>>>
>>>
>>> On Monday, November 24, 2025 at 6:34:17 PM UTC [email protected] wrote:
>>>
>>>> Here's a script that lets you send the body of the selected node to
>>>> email. The body needs to contain the text "email: <address>", where
>>>> "<address>" is the email address to send the node to. If there is a text
>>>> selection, it will be searched for the address. If not, the entire body
>>>> will be searched. The script works for both Windows and Linux. It ought
>>>> to
>>>> work on MacOS but I can't try that. The message is handled by the system
>>>> default email handler.
>>>>
>>>> I have added this script to my "Local" custom menu defined in
>>>> myLeoSettings.leo. Here it is:
>>>>
>>>> @language python
>>>> """Extract email address and launch email program on it.
>>>>
>>>> The address is expected to be prefaced like this:
>>>>
>>>> [optional text first] email: [email protected] [optional text after]
>>>>
>>>> If there is a selection, the selected text is searched for an email
>>>> address. Otherwise, the entire body is searched. The system's
>>>> default email program is opened.
>>>> """
>>>>
>>>> import re
>>>> from sys import platform
>>>> import os
>>>> from subprocess import call
>>>>
>>>> EMAILre = r'.*email:[ ]*([^@]+@[^@ \t\n]+)' # inline
>>>>
>>>> def open_file(filename):
>>>> try:
>>>> os.startfile(filename) # Windows only
>>>> except Exception as e:
>>>> print(e)
>>>> opener = "open" if platform == "darwin" else "xdg-open"
>>>> call([opener, filename])
>>>>
>>>> # List of line(s) containing cursor or selection
>>>> cursor_lines = c.getBodyLines()[1]
>>>> line = cursor_lines[0] if cursor_lines else ''
>>>>
>>>> matched = re.match(EMAILre, line)
>>>> target = matched[1] if matched else None
>>>>
>>>> if target:
>>>> target = 'mailto:' + target.strip()
>>>> open_file(target)
>>>> else:
>>>> g.es('no address found')
>>>>
>>>>
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