From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: Emacs <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: browse-url/w32-shell-execute problems on cygwin
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:14:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A391662.10507@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A3914A3.4090205@gnu.org>
On 6/17/2009 12:06 PM, Jason Rumney wrote:
> I don't see how bypassing browse-url fixes this
> for you, as the path will still be one that Windows does not recognize.
No, cygstart takes care of the interaction with Windows. If you have a
cygwin system available, just open a shell and type
cygstart "/unix/style/path/file.html"
and you'll see that it works. You can omit the quotes as long as
there's nothing in the file name that needs quoting (like spaces).
Ken
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-17 16:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-17 15:47 browse-url/w32-shell-execute problems on cygwin Ken Brown
2009-06-17 16:06 ` Jason Rumney
2009-06-17 16:14 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2009-06-17 18:02 ` Ken Brown
2009-06-17 21:30 ` Ken Brown
2009-06-17 21:44 ` Chong Yidong
2009-06-18 1:29 ` Ken Brown
2009-06-17 22:23 ` David Robinow
2009-06-18 12:46 ` Ken Brown
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