From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: pquessev@gmail.com, 58464@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#58464: 28.1; browse-url-emacs doesn't work for local files on Windows
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2022 18:55:03 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83leplavfs.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87edvdays6.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:42:49 +0200)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: pquessev@gmail.com, 58464@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:42:49 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> Well... have a look at bug#bug#42431, it analyses the problem. (Which
> >> is that any usage if insert-file-contents that doesn't reference an
> >> actual file on the file system will signal an error, and that's a
> >> mistake, I think?)
> >
> > So why isn't what I proposed there TRT? We _know_ we are visiting a
> > local file, so why not convert the file:// URL to a local file name
> > before doing anything with it?
>
> For local files, yes -- but it's a more general problem, and should
> (also) be fixed in general.
I'm not sure I follow: file:// URLs always point to local files, no?
And if you think about remote files in the sense of Tramp, then that's
transparently handled by the "normal" file I/O primitives. So what is
the more general problem to solve here? And why converting file://
URLs to file-name format is not TRT?
> (But also see bug#58302 -- browse-url-emacs shouldn't be calling these
> functions at all.)
How else can Emacs visit files except via insert-file-contents? Or
what do you mean by "these functions"?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-12 15:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-12 6:43 bug#58464: 28.1; browse-url-emacs doesn't work for local files on Windows Pascal Quesseveur
2022-10-12 7:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-12 11:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-10-12 13:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <828rlll4ef.fsf@gmail.com>
2022-10-12 13:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-12 11:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-10-12 13:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-12 13:18 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-10-12 14:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-12 14:42 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-10-12 15:55 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-10-12 15:57 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-10-12 16:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-13 7:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-10-13 10:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-13 11:30 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-10-13 15:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-13 16:40 ` Paul Eggert
2022-10-13 19:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
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