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Re: w32-shell-execute function definition is void
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:20:09 +0300
- Subject: Re: w32-shell-execute function definition is void
- References: <fb34b27b0606051002y5ae8f1b4ydbbf71fa47c961ce@mail.gmail.com> <24049941.post@talk.nabble.com> <4A3778AA.6060206@cornell.edu>
> Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:49:14 -0400
> From: Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>
>
> Finally, still in cygwin-init.el, I slightly modify browse-url-of-file:
>
> ;; browse-url-of-file doesn't work right under cygwin; I'll just open
> ;; the file using cygstart instead of trying to convert the filename
> ;; to a URL.
> [...]
> I'm sure there are better ways to do this, but the above is easy and has
> worked for me for years. If Eli is watching this thread, maybe he can
> suggest something better that could be submitted as a patch to the emacs
> developers.
The first step is, obviously, reporting (preferably to emacs-devel or
the bug tracker) the details of why the stock browse-url-of-file does
not work on Cygwin.
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