commit: 0f29d9f2912573e696b9cb6019cb036246d7d21e
Author: Ulrich Müller <ulm <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
AuthorDate: Tue Mar 7 17:26:48 2023 +0000
Commit: Ulrich Müller <ulm <AT> gentoo <DOT> org>
CommitDate: Tue Mar 7 17:26:48 2023 +0000
URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=0f29d9f2
x11-misc/emacs-desktop-mail: Backslash-escape '\' and '"'
Escape any backslash and double quote characters, before passing the URI
to emacsclient.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Müller <ulm <AT> gentoo.org>
...op-mail-1.1.ebuild => emacs-desktop-mail-1.2.ebuild} | 17 ++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/x11-misc/emacs-desktop-mail/emacs-desktop-mail-1.1.ebuild
b/x11-misc/emacs-desktop-mail/emacs-desktop-mail-1.2.ebuild
similarity index 65%
rename from x11-misc/emacs-desktop-mail/emacs-desktop-mail-1.1.ebuild
rename to x11-misc/emacs-desktop-mail/emacs-desktop-mail-1.2.ebuild
index 92d93860fb2f..aa83394f2032 100644
--- a/x11-misc/emacs-desktop-mail/emacs-desktop-mail-1.1.ebuild
+++ b/x11-misc/emacs-desktop-mail/emacs-desktop-mail-1.2.ebuild
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2022 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2023 Gentoo Authors
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
EAPI=8
@@ -29,8 +29,12 @@ src_install() {
# The Desktop Entry Specification does not allow field codes like %u
# inside a quoted argument, therefore we need a shell wrapper.
- # We want to pass a literal '"(message-mailto \"$1\")"' in the -c
- # command, but in the desktop entry '"', '\', and '$' must be escaped
+ # We pass the following commands to it, in order to backslash-escape
+ # any special characters '\' and '"' that occur in %u:
+ # u=${1//\\/\\\\}
+ # u=${u//\"/\\\"}
+ # exec emacsclient --eval "(message-mailto \"$u\")"
+ # However, in the desktop entry '"', '\', and '$' must be escaped
# as '\\"', '\\\\', and '\\$', respectively. Yet another level of
# backslash escapes is needed for '\' and '$' in the here-document.
newmenu - emacsclient-mail.desktop <<-EOF
@@ -38,8 +42,11 @@ src_install() {
Type=Application
Name=Emacsclient (mail)
NoDisplay=true
- Exec=${EPREFIX}/bin/bash -c "exec
${EPREFIX}/usr/bin/emacsclient \
---eval \\\\"(message-mailto \\\\\\\\\\\\"\\\\\$1\\\\\\\\\\\\")\\\\"" bash %u
+ Exec=${EPREFIX}/bin/bash -c \
+"u=\\\\\${1//\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\/\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\}; \
+u=\\\\\${u//\\\\\\\\\\\\"/\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"}; \
+exec ${EPREFIX}/usr/bin/emacsclient \
+--eval \\\\"(message-mailto \\\\\\\\\\\\"\\\\\$u\\\\\\\\\\\\")\\\\"" bash %u
Terminal=false
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/mailto;
EOF
