From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Cygwin patches
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:16:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e01d8a50911210416l55fa88fdj42a50ad3ed31708e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B07D914.8070608@cornell.edu>
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> wrote:
>>
>> I think that the right fix would be in browse-url-file-url, so that it
>> does return a correctly converted URL. Using cygstart directly in
>> browse-url-of-file deviates too much from what other platforms do --
>> they all invoke the browser in browse-url. Such a deviation could
>> mean maintenance headaches in the future. For example, browse-url
>> takes care of setting the environment for the process being invoked,
>> while your patch short-circuits that for Cygwin.
>
> OK, that makes sense. I'll figure out how to patch browse-url-file-url
> instead. But it will still mean cygwin-specific code in that function. Is
> that acceptable?
>
> [BTW, Lennart's suggestion that the cygwin-specific code should be moved to
> browse-url doesn't work. In fact, browse-url works fine on cygwin as is; it
> just needs to be given a good URL.]
Sorry for the confusion. I meant the same as Eli here.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-21 12:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-20 20:00 Cygwin patches Ken Brown
2009-11-20 21:50 ` Chong Yidong
2009-11-20 21:59 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-20 22:26 ` Ken Brown
2009-11-20 23:54 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-21 8:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-21 12:12 ` Ken Brown
2009-11-21 12:16 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2009-11-21 12:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-21 21:21 ` Ken Brown
2009-11-21 21:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-11-22 5:25 ` Davis Herring
2009-11-22 12:59 ` Ken Brown
2009-11-22 23:03 ` Chong Yidong
2009-11-22 23:23 ` Ken Brown
2009-11-22 23:30 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-23 1:37 ` Ken Brown
2009-11-23 1:42 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-23 1:50 ` Chong Yidong
2009-11-23 2:09 ` Ken Brown
2009-11-23 19:50 ` Ken Brown
2009-11-23 20:59 ` Chong Yidong
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-11-20 23:40 Angelo Graziosi
2009-11-21 4:50 ` Chong Yidong
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