Jambunathan K <kjambunat...@gmail.com> writes: > 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. >
I finally tracked this down. Disabling egg (from https://github.com/byplayer/egg.git) solved my problem with browse-url-emacs. There seems to be a(nother) problem in egg... Thank to all looking into this. Regards, Andreas