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Date: | Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:15:16 -0400 |
From: | Ken Brown <kbrown AT cornell DOT edu> |
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On 6/16/2009 4:34 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > On 6/16/2009 2:20 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:49:14 -0400 >>> From: Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu> >>> >>> Finally, still in cygwin-init.el, I slightly modify browse-url-of-file: >>> >>> ;; browse-url-of-file doesn't work right under cygwin; I'll just open >>> ;; the file using cygstart instead of trying to convert the filename >>> ;; to a URL. >>> [...] >>> I'm sure there are better ways to do this, but the above is easy and >>> has worked for me for years. If Eli is watching this thread, maybe >>> he can suggest something better that could be submitted as a patch to >>> the emacs developers. >> >> The first step is, obviously, reporting (preferably to emacs-devel or >> the bug tracker) the details of why the stock browse-url-of-file does >> not work on Cygwin. > > It's been several years since I looked at this and found my workaround, > and I've forgotten the details of what went wrong. I'll take another > look when I get a chance This turned out to be easier to sort out than I thought it would be. I've sent a report to emacs-devel: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-06/msg00320.html Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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