Re: cygwin browse-url bug

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Bruce Ingalls <bingalls@fit-zones.NO-SPAM.com>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2003 17:24:19 GMT
> 
> I'm not sure where to report this bug.
> cygwin-apps?
> emacs?
> author of browse-url?
> all of the above?

Who knows? but see below.

> Here's the problem:
> On most systems, I can run emacs -q and eval the lines below,
> and the browser will show the google usenet archives just fine.
> 
> With Emacs on Cygwin, no matter whether I use console or X Window, 
> Firebird does launch, but it does not load the URI as an argument.
> Instead, the homepage comes up.
> Is the problem that I am launching a native Windows app from Cygwin?

I'm guessing that Cygwin invokes the browser with a URL that is
munged by the file-name transformation stuff.  I'd try to write a
simple application that prints its command-line arguments, then force
Emacs to invoke that application as a Web browser, and see what args
it gets from Emacs.

Perhaps then you will know where to complain about this ;-)