From: Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net>
To: 19472-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19472: Eww in Emacs 24.4 refuses to open local files
Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 11:12:20 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a92269gr.fsf@violet.siamics.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <g6hxfZfyH8j3KyLlHB56VkHgAu3LJxfi7jEDTzJMYx5@local> (Kelly Dean's message of "Thu, 01 Jan 2015 04:14:15 +0000")
Tags: notabug
>>>>> Kelly Dean <kelly@prtime.org> writes:
>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>> Works for me on the Emacs 24 branch:
>> `M-x eww RET file:///tmp/cert.html RET'
> I get the error ⌜This function requires Emacs to be compiled with
> libxml2⌝.
> IOW, I can't read.
> In my defense, ⌜/home/test/test.html⌝ produced the error ⌜/80 Name or
> service not known⌝,
This could probably be improved, – either the error message, or
the treatment of URIs which look like (absolute?) filenames.
> and ⌜file://home/test/test.html⌝ produced an FTP buffer with the
> error ⌜home: No address associated with hostname⌝,
Indeed, a file://home/ URI means “get files from the host named
‘home’.” Cf.: file:/home/, which means “a directory named
/home/ on the local filesystem.”
> so by the time I tried ⌜file:///home/test/test.html⌝ and the debugger
> popped up yet again, I assumed the error was just another complaint
> about my syntax.
> Sorry for the mistaken bug report.
ACK, closing.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-01 11:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-30 9:56 bug#19472: Eww in Emacs 24.4 refuses to open local files Kelly Dean
2014-12-30 11:53 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-12-30 16:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-01 4:14 ` Kelly Dean
2015-01-01 11:12 ` Ivan Shmakov [this message]
2015-01-02 9:30 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2015-01-02 10:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-02 10:46 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2015-01-02 10:59 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-01-02 11:04 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2015-01-02 11:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-01-02 12:15 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2015-01-03 9:18 ` Michael Albinus
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