* bug#15144: 24.3.50; browse-url silently fails
@ 2013-08-20 16:54 Sam Steingold
2013-08-20 17:22 ` Thierry Volpiatto
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0 siblings, 3 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Sam Steingold @ 2013-08-20 16:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 15144
browse-url silently fails:
$ emacs -Q
M-x browse-url RET http://gnu.org RET
the *Messages* buffer now has this:
Waiting for process to die...done
The google chrome (the default browser) does not display anyting.
In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.3 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.6.4)
of 2013-08-20 on t520sds
Bzr revision: 113958 michael.albinus@gmx.de-20130820100413-uo3uupjgot4vxnl1
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11303000
System Description: Ubuntu 13.04
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Important settings:
value of $LC_COLLATE: C
value of $LANG: C
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^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread* bug#15144: 24.3.50; browse-url silently fails 2013-08-20 16:54 bug#15144: 24.3.50; browse-url silently fails Sam Steingold @ 2013-08-20 17:22 ` Thierry Volpiatto 2013-08-21 7:09 ` JānisDžeriņš 2013-08-21 21:32 ` Paul Eggert 2013-08-22 20:08 ` bug#15144: " Karl Fogel 2 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread From: Thierry Volpiatto @ 2013-08-20 17:22 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 15144 Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org> writes: > browse-url silently fails: > > $ emacs -Q > M-x browse-url RET http://gnu.org RET > > the *Messages* buffer now has this: > > Waiting for process to die...done > > The google chrome (the default browser) does not display anyting. Looks that xdg-open actually returns an error: xdg-open http://www.google.fr Error: No running window found So it is more a bug in xdg-open than a bug in Emacs. Though the function calling it should use `start-process` instead of `call-process` IMO. The other functions calling directly a browser seem to works. Bypassing xdg-open function work around this bug: (defvar browse-url-never-use-xdg-open t) (defadvice browse-url-can-use-xdg-open (around no-xdg-open activate) (unless browse-url-never-use-xdg-open ad-do-it)) -- Thierry Get my Gnupg key: gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 59F29997 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* bug#15144: 24.3.50; browse-url silently fails 2013-08-20 17:22 ` Thierry Volpiatto @ 2013-08-21 7:09 ` JānisDžeriņš 0 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: JānisDžeriņš @ 2013-08-21 7:09 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 15144 Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto <at> gmail.com> writes: > Sam Steingold <sds <at> gnu.org> writes: > > > browse-url silently fails: > > > > $ emacs -Q > > M-x browse-url RET http://gnu.org RET > > > > the *Messages* buffer now has this: > > > > Waiting for process to die...done > > > > The google chrome (the default browser) does not display anyting. > > Looks that xdg-open actually returns an error: > > xdg-open http://www.google.fr > Error: No running window found > > So it is more a bug in xdg-open than a bug in Emacs. I also have this problem. And I fixed it by passing NIL instead of 0 as the third parameter (DESTINATION) to CALL-PROCESS in BROWSE-URL-XDG-OPEN. T also worked. -- Jānis ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* bug#15144: 24.3.50; browse-url silently fails 2013-08-20 16:54 bug#15144: 24.3.50; browse-url silently fails Sam Steingold 2013-08-20 17:22 ` Thierry Volpiatto @ 2013-08-21 21:32 ` Paul Eggert 2013-08-22 20:08 ` bug#15144: " Karl Fogel 2 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Paul Eggert @ 2013-08-21 21:32 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Sam Steingold; +Cc: 15144-done Thanks, I reproduced the bug on Ubuntu 13.04 x86-64 and installed a fix as trunk bzr 113969. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
* bug#15144: browse-url silently fails 2013-08-20 16:54 bug#15144: 24.3.50; browse-url silently fails Sam Steingold 2013-08-20 17:22 ` Thierry Volpiatto 2013-08-21 21:32 ` Paul Eggert @ 2013-08-22 20:08 ` Karl Fogel 2 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread From: Karl Fogel @ 2013-08-22 20:08 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 15144 Thank you, Paul (and Jānis)! This was biting me too, and I hadn't had time to debug it yet. I was getting ready to, then updated and saw the fix (which works here). -Karl ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 5+ messages in thread
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