[plt-dev] searching for bitmap% via f1 on mac os x

(Oh -- and I tried with "" as well as with '').

Robby

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 7:01 AM, Robby Findler
<robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
>> On Feb 28, Thomas Chust wrote:
>>> 2009-02.28 Robby Findler <robby at eecs.northwestern.edu>:
>>> > [...]
>>> > browser-run: process execute failed: (#<path:/usr/bin/osascript> "-e"
>>> > "open location \"file:///Users/robby/Library/PLT%20Scheme/4.1.4.3/doc/search/index.html?q=bitmap%25\"")
>>> > [...]
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> out of curiosity: Is there any particular reason why PLT Scheme
>>> doesn't use the LaunchServices API to open the URL instead of
>>> executing an external command?
>>
>> Much easier to implement, and extremely negligible cost (compared to
>> starting your browser and making it render a documentation page).
>
> Maybe it is time to use launchservices, since we're having problems
> passing arguments, apparently.
>
>>> And if it is necessary to use an external command, why does it have
>>> to be that complicated instead of just running /usr/bin/open <URL>?
>>
>> That, I don't know.  Robby -- while you're having this problem (it
>> looks like it's not consistent), maybe you can try to change to the
>> above and see if it works better?  (The change in net/sendurl.ss
>> should be very easy.)
> I hit f1 in exactly the same place and now I get no error (with
> osascript). Boy, that's annoying.
>
> When I use 'open' I get this:
>
> The file /Users/robby/svn/plt/collects/net/'file:/Users/robby/Library/PLT%20Scheme/4.1.4.3/doc/search/index.html?q=help'
> does not exist.
> browser-run: process execute failed: (#<path:/usr/bin/open>
> "'file:///Users/robby/Library/PLT%20Scheme/4.1.4.3/doc/search/index.html?q=help'")
>
> Robby
>