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.