From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bruce Ingalls Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: cygwin browse-url bug Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 19:27:56 GMT Organization: Road Runner - NYC Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <0npBb.179200$ri.25832524@twister.nyc.rr.com> References: <7t2Bb.374145$pT1.189705@twister.nyc.rr.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1071001174 16131 80.91.224.253 (9 Dec 2003 20:19:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 20:19:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 09 21:19:32 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AToKR-0004QJ-00 for ; Tue, 09 Dec 2003 21:19:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ATonA-0008Tx-CK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2003 15:49:12 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!cyclone.bc.net!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!news.primus.ca!news.primus.ca!news3.optonline.net!cyclone.rdc-nyc.rr.com!news-out.nyc.rr.com!twister.nyc.rr.com.POSTED!not-for-mail User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031013 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.168.135.183 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com Original-X-Trace: twister.nyc.rr.com 1070998076 24.168.135.183 (Tue, 09 Dec 2003 14:27:56 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 14:27:56 EST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:119153 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:15093 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15093 Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>From: Bruce Ingalls >>On most systems, I can run emacs -q and eval the lines below, >>Firebird does launch, but it does not load the URI as an argument. >>Instead, the homepage comes up. > > I'm guessing that Cygwin invokes the browser with a URL that is > munged by the file-name transformation stuff. There are no file names to transform. MozillaFirebird.exe is in my PATH, and is invoked as MozillaFirebird http://groups.google.com/ In fact, the browser does launch. It just doesn't load Google. The syntax I gave works everywhere. It even works with the dillo browser, which is part of the cygnome distro. BTW, browse-url does not support links, because 'lynx' is hard-coded. Cygwin lynx works only with Cygwin-style paths, when a file:// URL is used. Native w32 browsers launched from cygwin emacs shell work fine with w32 file:// paths, but not even http:// URIs work from browse-url.