On 6/17/2009 2:02 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> 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.

To focus the discussion more, let me propose the attached patch.  The 
second hunk fixes what I believe to be a bug in 
browse-url-default-windows-browser.  The first hunk is uglier in the way 
it makes cygwin a special case.  Is there a better way to do this?

Ken