Re: browse-url/w32-shell-execute problems on cygwin

[Ken Brown]

On 6/17/2009 5:44 PM, Chong Yidong wrote:
> Ken Brown <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > -  (browse-url (browse-url-file-url file))
> > +  (if (eq system-type 'cygwin)
> > +      (shell-command (concat "cygstart " (shell-quote-argument file)))
> > +    (browse-url (browse-url-file-url file)))
> >
> > Is there a better way to do this?
>
> The better way is probably to change browse-url-default-browser

I'm not sure I understand.  I already have a good way of asking a 
browser to load a URL via browse-url-default-windows-browser (as I 
patched it).  The issue here is that browse-url-file-url doesn't return 
a suitable URL.  Or am I misunderstanding you?

> (BTW, this is all post-23.1).

Yes, I wasn't expecting anything else.

Ken