Re: Cygwin patches

[Chong Yidong]

Ken Brown <address@hidden> writes:

> So are you saying that "file:" (with no slashes) is added by design?
> It doesn't work for me.  (After the call to cygpath, I have a path of
> the form C:/blah/blah/blah.html; I need to add "file://", since
> otherwise only "file:" gets added and I don't have a valid URL.)

Does this change (instead of the other patches we've been considering)
do the right thing on Cygwin?

*** emacs/lisp/net/browse-url.el.~1.86.~        2009-11-22 18:00:33.000000000 
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--- emacs/lisp/net/browse-url.el        2009-11-22 20:49:42.000000000 -0500
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*** 443,449 ****
      ;; it in anonymous cases.  If it's not anonymous the next regexp
      ;; applies.
      ("^/\\([^:@address@hidden)?\\([^:]+\\):/*" . "ftp://\\1\\2/";)
!     ,@(if (memq system-type '(windows-nt ms-dos cygwin))
            '(("^\\([a-zA-Z]:\\)[\\/]" . "file:\\1/")
              ("^[\\/][\\/]+" . "file://")))
      ("^/+" . "file:///"))
--- 443,449 ----
      ;; it in anonymous cases.  If it's not anonymous the next regexp
      ;; applies.
      ("^/\\([^:@address@hidden)?\\([^:]+\\):/*" . "ftp://\\1\\2/";)
!     ,@(if (memq system-type '(windows-nt ms-dos))
            '(("^\\([a-zA-Z]:\\)[\\/]" . "file:\\1/")
              ("^[\\/][\\/]+" . "file://")))
      ("^/+" . "file:///"))