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Re: Cygwin patches


From: Chong Yidong
Subject: Re: Cygwin patches
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:50:39 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux)

Ken Brown <address@hidden> writes:

> Now that you're preparing for emacs 23.2, could you please apply the
> cygwin patches that I submitted last June?

Thanks, I've checked in your changes, except for the following:

> --- origsrc/lisp/net/browse-url.el    2009-11-20 11:34:25.000000000 -0500
> +++ src/lisp/net/browse-url.el        2009-11-20 11:35:28.000000000 -0500
> @@ -693,7 +693,9 @@
>         (cond ((not (buffer-modified-p)))
>               (browse-url-save-file (save-buffer))
>               (t (message "%s modified since last save" file))))))
> -  (browse-url (browse-url-file-url file))
> +  (if (eq system-type 'cygwin)
> +      (shell-command (concat "cygstart " (shell-quote-argument file)))
> +    (browse-url (browse-url-file-url file)))
>    (run-hooks 'browse-url-of-file-hook))

I still don't understand why cygwin needs special handling when, e.g.,
the other Windows ports don't.  Could you explain?




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