Re: Bug in Carbon port: browse-url-default-macosx-browser

[David Reitter]

On 24 Nov 2005, at 22:50, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

> > > > > > "David" == David Reitter <address@hidden> writes:
>
> David> I don't know about Emacs, as I installed Aquamacs Emacs.
>
> I think this is your problem.  This must've been added by Aquamacs, as
> the standard "mac/Emacs.app" in GNU Emacs CVS contains no such
> element in the Info.plist.
>
> Please talk to the Aquamacs people.  And yes, I see that they've added
> HTML there. I'd consider that mostly evil.

Excuse me: This is a problem that I never complained about. Please  
read my messages.
It's very normal for any OS X program to declare a couple of files it  
can typically open, usually along with supplying icons for these  
files. Nothing evil about that.
But again, this is not the problem at hand and I'm not going to  
discuss this any further.

The problem is that browse-url doesn't do what it advertises: "Ask a  
WWW browser to load url."
And that's the case for the very standard GNU Emacs -Q, easily  
reproducible:

Create an HTML file and save it under the name /tmp/test.tst

then call

(browse-url "file:///tmp/test.test")

(which is what the html-mode "View Buffer"  function does.)

No browser will start.