Re: [OT] open url in emacs was: Re: Using Org/babel for Emacs config files

[Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>]

Andreas Leha <andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de> writes:

> Hi Jambu,
>
> Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Bastien <bzg@altern.org> writes:
>>
>>> Andreas Leha <andreas.leha@med.uni-goettingen.de> writes:
>>>
>>>>   ^^^^^^^^^^  that is something I'd not expect to hear when it comes to
>>>> emacs....
>>>
>>> (when (switch-to-buffer-other-window
>>>        (url-retrieve-synchronously
>>> 	"https://raw.github.com/eschulte/emacs24-starter-kit/master/starter-kit.org"))
>>>   (write-file (read-from-minibuffer "File: "))
>>>   (org-mode))
>>
>> M-x browse-url-emacs RET

It works for me here without any extra props.

I would assume it has something to do with 's' in https.  It is possible
that that your local Emacs is not able to do TLS.  Change `https://' to
`http://'.

I run Emacs from trunk.  May be your Emacs is old - for some values of
old.

> thanks, I tried that, but that does not seem to work for me:
>
> (sorry for the German messaeges)
> ,----
> | Contacting host: raw.github.com:443 [3 times]
> | Note: file is write protected
> | Contacting host: raw.github.com:443
> | Loading reftex...done
> | Contacting host: raw.github.com:443
> | Compiling label environment definitions...done
> | Contacting host: raw.github.com:443
> | Scanning entire document...
> | No such file:
> | https://raw.github.com/eschulte/emacs24-starter-kit/master/starter-kit.org
> | (ignored)
> | Scanning file
> | https://raw.github.com/eschulte/emacs24-starter-kit/master/starter-kit.org
> | Scanning document... done
> | Local Ispell dictionary set to english
> | Contacting host: raw.github.com:443 [3 times]
> | open-network-stream: /443 Zu diesem Hostnamen gehört keine Adresse
> `----

> if you tell me how to make it work, that would be even simpler.
>
> Cheers,
> Andreas
>
>
>

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