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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

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