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When referring to a message from a public-inbox archive, a common format
to use is a URL that points to a specific archive and ends with
/$INBOX/$MESSAGE_ID, e.g.,
https://public-inbox.org/meta/20190108015420.GA28903@dcvr.
Calling piem-copy-mid-url (available in the piem-dispatch
transient) constructs such a URL, using the message ID and inbox
asscociated with the current buffer, and then copies the URL to the kill
ring. When a prefix agument is given, browse-url is called after
copying the URL.
Note that EWW works nicely with public-inbox’s HTTP interface. If you’d
prefer it to be invoked even though it’s not your default browser (as
configured by browse-url-browser-function), you can set
piem-browse-url-browser-function to eww-browse-url.
For notmuch.el users, there’s an additional entry point for copying
public-inbox URLs: enabling piem-notmuch-mode adds a “piem”
candidate to archives offered by
notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link and
notmuch-show-stash-mlarchive-link-and-go.