* bug#15144: 24.3.50; browse-url silently fails
@ 2013-08-20 16:54 Sam Steingold
2013-08-20 17:22 ` Thierry Volpiatto
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From: Sam Steingold @ 2013-08-20 16:54 UTC (permalink / raw
To: 15144
browse-url silently fails:
$ emacs -Q
M-x browse-url RET http://gnu.org RET
the *Messages* buffer now has this:
Waiting for process to die...done
The google chrome (the default browser) does not display anyting.
In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.3 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.6.4)
of 2013-08-20 on t520sds
Bzr revision: 113958 michael.albinus@gmx.de-20130820100413-uo3uupjgot4vxnl1
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11303000
System Description: Ubuntu 13.04
Configured using:
`configure --with-wide-int'
Important settings:
value of $LC_COLLATE: C
value of $LANG: C
locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
default enable-multibyte-characters: t
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* bug#15144: 24.3.50; browse-url silently fails
2013-08-20 16:54 bug#15144: 24.3.50; browse-url silently fails Sam Steingold
@ 2013-08-20 17:22 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2013-08-21 7:09 ` JānisDžeriņš
2013-08-21 21:32 ` Paul Eggert
2013-08-22 20:08 ` bug#15144: " Karl Fogel
2 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Thierry Volpiatto @ 2013-08-20 17:22 UTC (permalink / raw
To: 15144
Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org> writes:
> browse-url silently fails:
>
> $ emacs -Q
> M-x browse-url RET http://gnu.org RET
>
> the *Messages* buffer now has this:
>
> Waiting for process to die...done
>
> The google chrome (the default browser) does not display anyting.
Looks that xdg-open actually returns an error:
xdg-open http://www.google.fr
Error: No running window found
So it is more a bug in xdg-open than a bug in Emacs.
Though the function calling it should use `start-process` instead of
`call-process` IMO.
The other functions calling directly a browser seem to works.
Bypassing xdg-open function work around this bug:
(defvar browse-url-never-use-xdg-open t)
(defadvice browse-url-can-use-xdg-open (around no-xdg-open activate)
(unless browse-url-never-use-xdg-open
ad-do-it))
--
Thierry
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* bug#15144: 24.3.50; browse-url silently fails
2013-08-20 17:22 ` Thierry Volpiatto
@ 2013-08-21 7:09 ` JānisDžeriņš
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From: JānisDžeriņš @ 2013-08-21 7:09 UTC (permalink / raw
To: 15144
Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto <at> gmail.com> writes:
> Sam Steingold <sds <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
> > browse-url silently fails:
> >
> > $ emacs -Q
> > M-x browse-url RET http://gnu.org RET
> >
> > the *Messages* buffer now has this:
> >
> > Waiting for process to die...done
> >
> > The google chrome (the default browser) does not display anyting.
>
> Looks that xdg-open actually returns an error:
>
> xdg-open http://www.google.fr
> Error: No running window found
>
> So it is more a bug in xdg-open than a bug in Emacs.
I also have this problem. And I fixed it by passing NIL instead of 0
as the third parameter (DESTINATION) to CALL-PROCESS in
BROWSE-URL-XDG-OPEN. T also worked.
--
Jānis
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* bug#15144: 24.3.50; browse-url silently fails
2013-08-20 16:54 bug#15144: 24.3.50; browse-url silently fails Sam Steingold
2013-08-20 17:22 ` Thierry Volpiatto
@ 2013-08-21 21:32 ` Paul Eggert
2013-08-22 20:08 ` bug#15144: " Karl Fogel
2 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Paul Eggert @ 2013-08-21 21:32 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Sam Steingold; +Cc: 15144-done
Thanks, I reproduced the bug on Ubuntu 13.04 x86-64
and installed a fix as trunk bzr 113969.
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* bug#15144: browse-url silently fails
2013-08-20 16:54 bug#15144: 24.3.50; browse-url silently fails Sam Steingold
2013-08-20 17:22 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2013-08-21 21:32 ` Paul Eggert
@ 2013-08-22 20:08 ` Karl Fogel
2 siblings, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Karl Fogel @ 2013-08-22 20:08 UTC (permalink / raw
To: 15144
Thank you, Paul (and Jānis)! This was biting me too, and I hadn't had
time to debug it yet. I was getting ready to, then updated and saw the
fix (which works here).
-Karl
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