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: cygwin browse-url bug Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 17:24:19 GMT Organization: Road Runner - NYC Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <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 1070904591 2339 80.91.224.253 (8 Dec 2003 17:29:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 17:29:51 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 08 18:29:48 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 1ATPCe-0001lG-00 for ; Mon, 08 Dec 2003 18:29:48 +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 1ATQ9t-0001vA-VW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 Dec 2003 13:31:01 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.uchicago.edu!yellow.newsread.com!netaxs.com!newsread.com!feed1.newsreader.com!newsreader.com!news3.optonline.net!cyclone.rdc-nyc.rr.com!news-out.nyc.rr.com!twister.nyc.rr.com.POSTED!53ab2750!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 Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.168.135.183 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com Original-X-Trace: twister.nyc.rr.com 1070904259 24.168.135.183 (Mon, 08 Dec 2003 12:24:19 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 12:24:19 EST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:119118 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:15058 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15058 I'm not sure where to report this bug. cygwin-apps? emacs? author of browse-url? all of the above? Here's the problem: On most systems, I can run emacs -q and eval the lines below, and the browser will show the google usenet archives just fine. With Emacs on Cygwin, no matter whether I use console or X Window, Firebird does launch, but it does not load the URI as an argument. Instead, the homepage comes up. Is the problem that I am launching a native Windows app from Cygwin? Also, is there a way to tell Cygwin to launch the _default_ w32 browser? This likely requires a registry key lookup. I heard that the new Thunderbird 0.4 now launches the 'default' Linux browser. How does one find such a default on Linux-like systems? -- code follows -- (require 'browse-url) (defconst browse-url-browser-function 'browse-url-netscape) ;;Assume the correct path to Firebird; it does launch (defconst browse-url-netscape-program "c:/Program Files/MozillaFirebird/MozillaFirebird.exe") (browse-url "http://groups.google.com/")