Re: Patch: file: -> file:/// in w32

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>]

Jason Rumney wrote:
> Lennart Borgman wrote:
>> I believe a file url in w32 should begin with "file:///" not just 
>> "file:". (I am unsure about ms-dos here.) A tiny patch is attached 
>> for this.
> I think the condition used here is wrong. Instead of using 
> system-type, we should test for the actual problem. The actual problem 
> here is that an absolute filename does not start with /, so we need to 
> prepend an extra one to make the URL local. I'm not sure that the 
> current test is doing the right thing for cygwin, for instance, it may 
> depend on some user setting whether the cygwin port uses cygwin paths 
> or native windows paths here.
I am not sure I understand you since I do not know the rules very well. 
Do you think that something like this would be better:


*** d:\eclean\bld\emacs\lisp\net\browse-url.el    2006-02-12 
13:41:32.721715200 +0100
--- browse-url.el    2006-02-19 23:35:44.100412200 +0100
***************
*** 457,465 ****
      ;; it in anonymous cases.  If it's not anonymous the next regexp
      ;; applies.
      ("^/\\([^:@]+@\\)?\\([^:]+\\):/*" . "ftp://\\1\\2/")
      (,@ (if (memq system-type '(windows-nt ms-dos cygwin))
!         '(("^\\([a-zA-Z]:\\)[\\/]" . "file:\\1/")
!               ("^[\\/][\\/]+" . "file://"))))
      ("^/+" . "file:/")))
    "*An alist of (REGEXP . STRING) pairs used by `browse-url-of-file'.
  Any substring of a filename matching one of the REGEXPs is replaced by
--- 457,465 ----
      ;; it in anonymous cases.  If it's not anonymous the next regexp
      ;; applies.
      ("^/\\([^:@]+@\\)?\\([^:]+\\):/*" . "ftp://\\1\\2/")
+     ("^\\([^/]\\)" . "file:///\\1")
      (,@ (if (memq system-type '(windows-nt ms-dos cygwin))
!             '(("^[\\/][\\/]+" . "file://"))))
      ("^/+" . "file:/")))
    "*An alist of (REGEXP . STRING) pairs used by `browse-url-of-file'.
  Any substring of a filename matching one of the REGEXPs is replaced by