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24.3.50; browse-url silently fails

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From: Sam Steingold <sds <at> gnu.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.3.50; browse-url silently fails
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 12:54:52 -0400

browse-url silently fails:

$ emacs -Q
M-x browse-url RET http://gnu.org RET

the *Messages* buffer now has this:

Waiting for process to die...done

The google chrome (the default browser) does not display anyting.

In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.3 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.6.4)
 of 2013-08-20 on t520sds
Bzr revision: 113958 michael.albinus <at> gmx.de-20130820100413-uo3uupjgot4vxnl1
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11303000
System Description:	Ubuntu 13.04

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From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15144: 24.3.50; browse-url silently fails
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 19:22:01 +0200

Sam Steingold <sds <at> gnu.org> writes:

> browse-url silently fails:
>
> $ emacs -Q
> M-x browse-url RET http://gnu.org RET
>
> the *Messages* buffer now has this:
>
> Waiting for process to die...done
>
> The google chrome (the default browser) does not display anyting.

Looks that xdg-open actually returns an error:

xdg-open http://www.google.fr
Error: No running window found

So it is more a bug in xdg-open than a bug in Emacs.
Though the function calling it should use `start-process` instead of
`call-process` IMO.

The other functions calling directly a browser seem to works.
Bypassing xdg-open function work around this bug:

(defvar browse-url-never-use-xdg-open t)
(defadvice browse-url-can-use-xdg-open (around no-xdg-open activate)
  (unless browse-url-never-use-xdg-open
    ad-do-it))
 
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Message #13 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: JānisDžeriņš <jonis <at> latnet.lv>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15144: 24.3.50; browse-url silently fails
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 07:09:28 +0000 (UTC)

Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Sam Steingold <sds <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > browse-url silently fails:
> >
> > $ emacs -Q
> > M-x browse-url RET http://gnu.org RET
> >
> > the *Messages* buffer now has this:
> >
> > Waiting for process to die...done
> >
> > The google chrome (the default browser) does not display anyting.
> 
> Looks that xdg-open actually returns an error:
> 
> xdg-open http://www.google.fr
> Error: No running window found
> 
> So it is more a bug in xdg-open than a bug in Emacs.

I also have this problem.  And I fixed it by passing NIL instead of 0
as the third parameter (DESTINATION) to CALL-PROCESS in
BROWSE-URL-XDG-OPEN.  T also worked.

--
Jānis

Message #18 received at 15144-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Sam Steingold <sds <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 15144-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: 24.3.50; browse-url silently fails
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 14:32:01 -0700

Thanks, I reproduced the bug on Ubuntu 13.04 x86-64
and installed a fix as trunk bzr 113969.

Message #26 received at 15144 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Karl Fogel <kfogel <at> red-bean.com>
To: 15144 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: browse-url silently fails
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 15:08:51 -0500

Thank you, Paul (and Jānis)!  This was biting me too, and I hadn't had
time to debug it yet.  I was getting ready to, then updated and saw the
fix (which works here).

-Karl

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