Doc fixes for emacsbug.el

* lisp/mail/emacsbug.el (report-emacs-bug-can-use-osx-open)
(report-emacs-bug-can-use-xdg-email):
(report-emacs-bug-insert-to-mailer): Doc fixes.
(report-emacs-bug): Message fix.
* etc/NEWS: Related edit.

* lisp/net/browse-url.el: Comment.

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index d6fe38e..a60d7c4 100644 (file)
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -174,6 +174,10 @@ in your ~/.authinfo file instead.
 **** The command `mail-attach-file' was renamed to `mail-insert-file'.
 The old name is now an obsolete alias to the new name.
 
+*** The M-x report-emacs-bug command can optionally pass the text of
+your bug report to your desktop's preferred mail client.  This
+uses either the "xdg-email" utility, or OS X's "open" command.
+
 ** Emacs server and client changes
 +++
 *** New option `server-port' specifies the port on which the Emacs
@@ -927,8 +931,6 @@ They are superseded by shift-select-mode, enabled by default since 23.1.
 
 ** Miscellaneous
 
-*** FIXME: xdg-open for reportbug, 2010/08.
-
 +++
 *** The Landmark game is now invoked with `landmark', not `lm'.
 

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 891b164..9ee16e1 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 2012-02-09  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
 
+       * mail/emacsbug.el (report-emacs-bug-can-use-osx-open)
+       (report-emacs-bug-can-use-xdg-email):
+       (report-emacs-bug-insert-to-mailer): Doc fixes.
+       (report-emacs-bug): Message fix.
+
        * net/browse-url.el (browse-url-can-use-xdg-open)
        (browse-url-xdg-open): Doc fixes.
 

diff --git a/lisp/mail/emacsbug.el b/lisp/mail/emacsbug.el
index 29ce188..20b4361 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/mail/emacsbug.el
+++ b/lisp/mail/emacsbug.el
@@ -78,13 +78,16 @@ Used for querying duplicates and linking to existing bugs.")
 (defvar message-strip-special-text-properties)
 
 (defun report-emacs-bug-can-use-osx-open ()
-  "Check if OSX open can be used to insert bug report into mailer"
+  "Return non-nil if the OS X \"open\" command is available for mailing."
   (and (featurep 'ns)
        (equal (executable-find "open") "/usr/bin/open")
        (memq system-type '(darwin))))
 
+;; FIXME this duplicates much of the logic from browse-url-can-use-xdg-open.
 (defun report-emacs-bug-can-use-xdg-email ()
-  "Check if xdg-email can be used, i.e. we are on Gnome, KDE or xfce4."
+  "Return non-nil if the \"xdg-email\" command can be used.
+xdg-email is a desktop utility that calls your preferred mail client.
+This requires you to be running either Gnome, KDE, or Xfce4."
   (and (getenv "DISPLAY")
        (executable-find "xdg-email")
        (or (getenv "GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID")
@@ -98,16 +101,23 @@ Used for querying duplicates and linking to existing bugs.")
                                  "org.gnome.SessionManager.CanShutdown"))
             (error nil))
           (equal (getenv "KDE_FULL_SESSION") "true")
+          ;; FIXME? browse-url-can-use-xdg-open also accepts LXDE.
+          ;; Is that no good here, or just overlooked?
           (condition-case nil
               (eq 0 (call-process
                      "/bin/sh" nil nil nil
                      "-c"
+                     ;; FIXME use string-match rather than grep.
                      "xprop -root _DT_SAVE_MODE|grep xfce4"))
             (error nil)))))
 
 (defun report-emacs-bug-insert-to-mailer ()
+  "Send the message to your preferred mail client.
+This requires either the OS X \"open\" command, or the freedesktop
+\"xdg-email\" command to be available."
   (interactive)
   (save-excursion
+    ;; FIXME? use mail-fetch-field?
     (let* ((to (progn
                 (goto-char (point-min))
                 (forward-line)
@@ -319,7 +329,7 @@ usually do not have translators for other languages.\n\n")))
                "  Type \\[kill-buffer] RET to cancel (don't send it).\n"))
        (if can-insert-mail
            (princ (substitute-command-keys
-                   "  Type \\[report-emacs-bug-insert-to-mailer] to insert text to you preferred mail program.\n")))
+                   "  Type \\[report-emacs-bug-insert-to-mailer] to copy text to your preferred mail program.\n")))
        (terpri)
        (princ (substitute-command-keys
                "  Type \\[report-emacs-bug-info] to visit in Info the Emacs Manual section

diff --git a/lisp/net/browse-url.el b/lisp/net/browse-url.el
index 99f3c53..5042320 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/net/browse-url.el
+++ b/lisp/net/browse-url.el
@@ -969,6 +969,7 @@ This requires you to be running either Gnome, KDE, Xfce4 or LXDE."
               (eq 0 (call-process
                      "/bin/sh" nil nil nil
                      "-c"
+                     ;; FIXME use string-match rather than grep.
                      "xprop -root _DT_SAVE_MODE|grep xfce4"))
             (error nil))
           (member (getenv "DESKTOP_SESSION") '("LXDE" "Lubuntu"))