John J. Foerch wrote:
> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 04:20:04PM -0400, Joe Fineman wrote:
> > I am running an antique Conkeror (from 2008) under Windows XP. It
> > interfaces satisfactorily with my Emacs 22.3.1 running with
> > Cygwin.
> >
> > With the help of a friend, I have been trying to upgrade it. He
> > succeeded in downloading Conkeror 0.9.3 and Xulrunner 1.9 and
> > getting them to run. However:
> XULRunner 1.9 is very old. I recommend using a newer version.
That was a mistake. It is actually 2.0.
> > 1. He did not succeed in getting Emacs to communicate with it. My
> > present code for that purpose, in my ~/.emacs, is
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > (setq
> > browse-url-browser-function 'browse-url-generic
> > browse-url-generic-program "c:/conkeror/conkeror.exe")
> >
> > (setq gnus-button-url 'browse-url-generic
> > browse-url-generic-program "c:/conkeror/conkeror.exe"
> > browse-url-browser-function gnus-button-url)
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > Adding ".lnk" to the filename does not do the job, and neither
> > does any of several strenuous workarounds that my friend
> > tried. Either nothing happens, or permission is refused.
> > Changing the permission in Cygwin makes the new Conkeror
> > accessible from the Cygwin shell and from Windows, but not
> > from Emacs.
> How is Cygwin involved with Conkeror? Conkeror is Windows compatible.
> The normal way to launch Conkeror is to do:
> /path/to/xulrunner /path/to/conkeror/application.ini
> You could put this in a batch file or a shortcut file.
With the help of this hint, my friend (who is a programmer but not an
expert at Emacs or Conkeror) managed to bring it around (using a batch
file; a shortcut file did not work). For the record, the code in
~/.emacs had to be changed to
----------------------------------------------------------------------
(setq
browse-url-browser-function 'browse-url-generic
browse-url-generic-program "c:/conkeror/conkeror.bat")
(setq gnus-button-url 'browse-url-generic
browse-url-generic-program "c:/conkeror/conkeror.bat"
browse-url-browser-function gnus-button-url)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
and c:/conkeror/conkeror.bat had to be
----------------------------------------------------------------------
"c:\XULRunner 2.0\xulrunner\xulrunner.exe" c:\conkeror\application.ini %1
----------------------------------------------------------------------
It is important to use backslashes to please Bill Gates. There was
also an environment variable to be set, I forget where.
> > 2. The scroll wheel on my trackball does not work. It works
> > everywhere else, including the old Conkeror.
> Would have to ask other Windows users about this. Haven't had this
> sort of problem myself.
Miraculously, that problem disappeared as well.
Thanks very much for your help & patience.
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