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From: jasonr (Jason Rumney) @  f2s.com
Subject: Re: cygwin browse-url bug
Date: 10 Dec 2003 01:38:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <u4qw9e9jg.fsf@jasonrumney.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1425.1071004112.399.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il> writes:

> 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.

I think either that, or Firebird works differently under W32 than
Unix (eg using DDE instead of command line options), and browse-url
is coded to assume the command-line options will work.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-12-10  1:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-08 17:24 cygwin browse-url bug Bruce Ingalls
2003-12-09 10:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <mailman.1405.1070969197.399.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-12-09 19:27   ` Bruce Ingalls
2003-12-09 20:05     ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]     ` <mailman.1425.1071004112.399.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-12-10  1:38       ` Jason Rumney [this message]

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