From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: 19472@debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: kelly@prtime.org, ivan@siamics.net
Subject: bug#19472: Eww in Emacs 24.4 refuses to open local files
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 10:30:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3lhllsf5w.fsf@stories.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a92269gr.fsf@violet.siamics.net> (Ivan Shmakov's message of "Thu, 01 Jan 2015 11:12:20 +0000")
Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net> writes:
> > 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.”
Nobody can ever remember the syntax of a file: URI, though, so I think
`M-x eww' should DWIM it a bit.
If the URL is "/some/file/that/exists" or starts with "file:" and you
can then make (sort of) sense of it, then `M-x eww' should load that
file.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-02 9:30 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
2015-01-02 9:30 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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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