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 14:02:02 -0400 Message-ID: <4A392F9A.1030309@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 1245262459 10897 80.91.229.12 (17 Jun 2009 18:14:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 18:14:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 17 20:14:14 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 1MGzeI-0006Ir-JP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:14:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53819 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MGzeH-00042Y-SR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:14:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MGzSR-0004ZM-6i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:01:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MGzSM-0004Rj-CT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:01:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40604 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MGzSL-0004RH-PU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:01:54 -0400 Original-Received: from granite1.mail.cornell.edu ([128.253.83.141]:60777 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 1MGzSJ-0008PM-Pj; Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:01:51 -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 n5HI1oTk020048 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:01:50 -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:111559 Archived-At: On 6/17/2009 12:06 PM, Jason Rumney wrote: > Ken Brown wrote: >> In browse-url.el, browse-url-browser-function is set to >> browse-url-default-windows-browser on cygwin. > That is wrong, feel free to change it to a better default. I don't agree. Since cygwin doesn't provide its own browser, the natural default for a cygwin user is the default windows browser. What I think is wrong (and easy to fix) is that browse-url-default-windows-browser doesn't do the right thing on cygwin. Ken