Re: w32-shell-execute function definition is void

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 6/16/2009 2:20 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 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.

It's been several years since I looked at this and found my workaround, 
and I've forgotten the details of what went wrong.  I'll take another 
look when I get a chance and submit a patch or bug report, unless 
someone beats me to it.  (Marc?)

Ken

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