From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: browse-url drops fragment identifier from file urls on Windows? Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 18:23:41 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1351549431 1652 80.91.229.3 (29 Oct 2012 22:23:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 22:23:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Tom Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 29 23:24:00 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TSxkU-0004PY-0K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2012 23:23:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37599 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TSxkL-0001j9-5R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2012 18:23:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51826) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TSxkF-0001iA-KH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2012 18:23:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TSxkE-00016R-IV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2012 18:23:43 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:43626) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TSxkE-00016N-F1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Oct 2012 18:23:42 -0400 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TSxkD-0003ij-LD; Mon, 29 Oct 2012 18:23:41 -0400 X-Spook: DRM David John Oates AIMSX War on Terrorism Aladdin X-Ran: ak@y"z^[f[+"YOTp2rOIPOXHS]"_VO,A{o#|^aXU/irjYSY#*$,^N"L3kjF(pdP#Ye'Pf\ X-Hue: yellow X-Attribution: GM Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Tom's message of "Fri, 26 Oct 2012 17:54:04 +0000 (UTC)") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 208.118.235.10 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:87487 Archived-At: Tom wrote: > Try this call with a local html file with a fragment appended > to the url (e.g. #top): > > (browse-url "file://localhost/stuff/a.html#top") > > For me the #top part is not there when the URL is opened in the > browser. Read these: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=2543 http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BrowseUrl "The problem is not one of quoting..." > Does it happen only on Windows? Yes. > Is there a workaround for this? Use a proper OS? :) Or the wiki page has a suggestion.