> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:49:14 -0400 > From: Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu> > > Finally, still in cygwin-init.el, I slightly modify browse-url-of-file: > > ;; browse-url-of-file doesn't work right under cygwin; I'll just open > ;; the file using cygstart instead of trying to convert the filename > ;; to a URL. > [...] > I'm sure there are better ways to do this, but the above is easy and has > worked for me for years. If Eli is watching this thread, maybe he can > suggest something better that could be submitted as a patch to the emacs > developers.
The first step is, obviously, reporting (preferably to emacs-devel or the bug tracker) the details of why the stock browse-url-of-file does not work on Cygwin. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/