On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 03:57:26PM -0400, Joe Fineman wrote: > 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.
Okay, great. I will add something about this to our windows installation wiki page. -- John Foerch _______________________________________________ Conkeror mailing list [email protected] https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/conkeror
