Re: [Emacs-diffs] /srv/bzr/emacs/trunk r107890: Adapt browse-url.el to improvements in Cygwin's cygstart utility.

[Katsumi Yamaoka]

Ken Brown wrote:
[...]
> Would the following work?  Write a script "browser" that accepts a URL
> and then calls firefox, after first translating file:// URLs to a form
> that firefox understands.  Then set browse-url-generic-program to
> "browser".

That's a good idea.  I believe it should work, will try it later.

> This strikes me as more in the spirit of Cygwin, which
> tries to emulate GNU/Linux.  So a browser for Cygwin users ought to be
> able to handle file:// URLs.  That's why I asked for cygstart to be
> changed so that it would understand such URLs.  (It also understands
> mailto: URLs now.)

Agreed.  Thanks.