From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Brown Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: browse-url/w32-shell-execute problems on cygwin Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:14:26 -0400 Message-ID: <4A391662.10507@cornell.edu> References: <4A391012.1060306@cornell.edu> <4A3914A3.4090205@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1245256342 21552 80.91.229.12 (17 Jun 2009 16:32:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:32:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 17 18:32:19 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MGy3c-0000Sl-U2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:32:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41417 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MGy3c-00080z-3p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:32:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MGxmJ-00084G-3e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:14:23 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MGxmE-000805-1m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:14:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60251 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MGxmD-0007zw-OB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:14:17 -0400 Original-Received: from granite1.mail.cornell.edu ([128.253.83.141]:63437 helo=authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MGxmB-00044N-G4; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:14:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [128.84.234.191] (markov.math.cornell.edu [128.84.234.191]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.13.1/8.12.10) with ESMTP id n5HGEEV5003063 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:14:14 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) In-Reply-To: <4A3914A3.4090205@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:111555 Archived-At: 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