From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: cygwin browse-url bug Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 22:05:14 +0200 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <7105-Tue09Dec2003220514+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> References: <7t2Bb.374145$pT1.189705@twister.nyc.rr.com> <0npBb.179200$ri.25832524@twister.nyc.rr.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1071000674 15073 80.91.224.253 (9 Dec 2003 20:11:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 20:11:14 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 09 21:11:03 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 1AToCF-0003pF-01 for ; Tue, 09 Dec 2003 21:11:03 +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 1ATp67-0003Xm-88 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2003 16:08:47 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ATp5p-0003XH-HQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2003 16:08:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1ATp5J-0003Rr-DQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2003 16:08:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.24] (helo=legolas.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ATp5I-0003R1-62 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Dec 2003 16:07:56 -0500 Original-Received: from zaretski ([80.230.154.120]) by legolas.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.3.8-GR) with ESMTP id AXK56627; Tue, 9 Dec 2003 22:06:24 +0200 (IST) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-reply-to: <0npBb.179200$ri.25832524@twister.nyc.rr.com> (message from Bruce Ingalls on Tue, 09 Dec 2003 19:27:56 GMT) 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:15091 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15091 > From: Bruce Ingalls > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help > Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 19:27:56 GMT > > > 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/ Are you sure that "http://groups.google.com/" is indeed the argument that MozillaFirebird.exe gets in your case? If so, my assumptions was wrong, and some other factor is at work here. What I meant to say is that there's a possibility that the presence of "//" in the file name causes some cygwin magic kick in that is supposed to transform cygwin-style file names to Windows-style, even though the argument to the browser is a URL, not a file name. HTH