Re: [O] [OT] open url in emacs was: Re: Using Org/babel for Emacs config files

[Andreas Leha]

Jambunathan K <address@hidden> writes:

> Andreas Leha <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Hi Jambu,
>>
>> Jambunathan K <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>>> Bastien <address@hidden> writes:
>>>
>>>> Andreas Leha <address@hidden> writes:
>>>>
>>>>>   ^^^^^^^^^^  that is something I'd not expect to hear when it comes to
>>>>> emacs....
>>>>
>>>> (when (switch-to-buffer-other-window
>>>>        (url-retrieve-synchronously
>>>>    
>>>> "https://raw.github.com/eschulte/emacs24-starter-kit/master/starter-kit.org";))
>>>>   (write-file (read-from-minibuffer "File: "))
>>>>   (org-mode))
>>>
>>> M-x browse-url-emacs RET
>
> It works for me here without any extra props.
>
> I would assume it has something to do with 's' in https.  It is possible
> that that your local Emacs is not able to do TLS.  Change `https://' to
> `http://'.
>
> I run Emacs from trunk.  May be your Emacs is old - for some values of
> old.
>

I finally tracked this down.

Disabling egg (from https://github.com/byplayer/egg.git) solved my
problem with browse-url-emacs.
There seems to be a(nother) problem in egg...

Thank to all looking into this.

Regards,
Andreas