From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: Emacs <emacs-devel@gnu.org>, Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: browse-url/w32-shell-execute problems on cygwin
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:29:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A399897.8050607@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zlc67cxe.fsf@stupidchicken.com>
On 6/17/2009 5:44 PM, Chong Yidong wrote:
> Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> writes:
>
>> - (browse-url (browse-url-file-url file))
>> + (if (eq system-type 'cygwin)
>> + (shell-command (concat "cygstart " (shell-quote-argument file)))
>> + (browse-url (browse-url-file-url file)))
>>
>> Is there a better way to do this?
>
> The better way is probably to change browse-url-default-browser
I'm not sure I understand. I already have a good way of asking a
browser to load a URL via browse-url-default-windows-browser (as I
patched it). The issue here is that browse-url-file-url doesn't return
a suitable URL. Or am I misunderstanding you?
> (BTW, this is all post-23.1).
Yes, I wasn't expecting anything else.
Ken
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-18 1:29 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
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 [this message]
2009-06-17 22:23 ` David Robinow
2009-06-18 12:46 ` Ken Brown
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