Re: cygwin browse-url bug

[Bruce Ingalls]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Bruce Ingalls <bingalls@fit-zones.NO-SPAM.com>
> > On most systems, I can run emacs -q and eval the lines below,

> > Firebird does launch, but it does not load the URI as an argument.
> > Instead, the homepage comes up.

> I'm guessing that Cygwin invokes the browser with a URL that is
> munged by the file-name transformation stuff.

There are no file names to transform. MozillaFirebird.exe is in my PATH, 
and is invoked as
        MozillaFirebird http://groups.google.com/

In fact, the browser does launch. It just doesn't load Google.
The syntax I gave works everywhere. It even works with the dillo 
browser, which is part of the cygnome distro.
BTW, browse-url does not support links, because 'lynx' is hard-coded.

Cygwin lynx works only with Cygwin-style paths, when a file:// URL is used.

Native w32 browsers launched from cygwin emacs shell work fine with w32 
file:// paths, but not even http:// URIs work from browse-url.