Andreas Leha <andreas.l...@med.uni-goettingen.de> writes: > Hi Jambu, > > Jambunathan K <kjambunat...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Bastien <b...@altern.org> writes: >> >>> Andreas Leha <andreas.l...@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 > > > --