Re: [Evolution] Using Evolution from the command line.

[Neil Woolford <neil neilwoolford co uk>]

At 15:18 13/02/05, Andre Klapper wrote:

> hi neil,
>
> Am Sonntag, den 13.02.2005, 11:32 +0000 schrieb Neil Woolford:
> > I can't find a full description of the command line syntax for
> > evolution.
>
> evolution seems to parse only the first attribute directly after the
> "?" and cuts off everything after the "&", for example "evolution
> mailto:recipient example com?cc=cc@example.com&bcc=bcc example com"
> only adds recipient and cc, but not the bcc to an ew email.
> i've added a bug report at
> <http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=72555>.

There's been a quick response to that;  embarrassingly, the problem was not 
escaping the
"&" character. (Thanks to spyderz for pointing this out so fast!)  As it is 
a shell metacharacter,
the shell was grabbing it and presumably trying to parse the rest of the 
line itself rather than
passing it to Evolution.  Doh! <:-|

So what will work 
is;  mailto:recipient example com?cc=cc@example.com\&bcc=bcc example com"

("\&" in place of "&")

Having said that, *none* of the examples I found or was emailed escaped the 
& characters ;-)


> > Where can I find information about the command line syntax and
> > evolution-shell?
>
> good question - evolution has no manual entry.

Which does seem perverse to me...

> isn't there anything
> about it in the documentation?

A very minimal reference to starting a message from the command line by 
"mailto:joe soap com" but really
not enough to make proper use of it...

> perhaps in the FAQ when it's up. :-/

I did try the url for the FAQ first and got a timeout;  how long has it 
been down?

Ich bedanke mich sehr!

Neil 


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