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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT gnu DOT org>
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> 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.

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