Re: [h-e-w] Please test w32-shell-execute

[Lennart Borgman]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Lennart Borgman
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Drew Adams <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> I get the same as you, Lennart.
>>>
>>> The last two do not open the browser, and they do not raise
>>> an error - they seem to do nothing.
>>
>> I should have added that that is with the 23.1 Emacs release on Windows XP 
>> SP3,
>> using `emacs -Q'.
>
>
> Thanks for all responses. I think there must be some Registry entries
> responsible for the difference. Does anyone know which those might be?
>
> I guess the relavant entries are at
>
>   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\file
>   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\file
>   HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\file
>
> Could someone for whom it worked in all cases export these keys and
> send them here?


-------------------------------- Here is a big part saying I found no
important diffs so far --------------------------

I got some responses off list for this. John sent me these registry
keys and they look very similar to mine, except for two small
differences:

1) I have an EditFlags which John does not have. Tried renaming that
value, but that did not help.

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\FirefoxHTML]
@="Firefox Document"
"FriendlyTypeName"="Firefox Document"
"EditFlags"=dword:00000000

2) He had some editor entries. Does not seem to be involved.


John has

  assoc .htm=htmlfile

while I have

  assoc .htm=FirefoxHTML

Our ftype for those are similar.

We also looked at "Add or Remove Programs -> Set Program Access and
Default". No differences there either.

* Summary John-me: It works for him, not for me. Only difference found
is assoc, but when I tried changing that I got the same result.
(However I am unsure if Emacs needs to be restarted, I did not do
that.)


Drew has no file assoc for .html.

* Summary Drew-me: It does not work for anyone of us. assoc does not
seem to be involved.


----------------------- And now I will ask for some more help
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I have got the feeling that file:/// URLs are incompletely setup for
me, but I am not sure. In Windows Explorer in the menus Tools - Folder
Options in then in the tab File Options there are some entries in the
beginning that does not have any file extensions. There I have for
example "URL: File Transfer Protocol". That must be ftp://.

However what I am missing there is something for file:///. Do you have
something for that there?