From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ralph Schleicher Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#8259: browse-url-of-dired-file fails to browse . and .. Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:55:43 +0100 Organization: Ralph Schleicher Message-ID: <877hc0jgzk.fsf@bravo.mueller-schleicher.i> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300219645 10219 80.91.229.12 (15 Mar 2011 20:07:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:07:25 +0000 (UTC) To: 8259@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 15 21:07:18 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PzaWR-0002Vk-Mg for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 21:07:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56940 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PzaWQ-0003tX-Pz for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:07:14 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59721 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PzaWL-0003tP-N9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:07:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PzaWK-0007Ho-Lk for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:07:09 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:55339) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PzaWK-0007Hh-JQ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:07:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PzaQQ-0001qu-Tu; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:01:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Ralph Schleicher Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:01:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: report 8259 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: X-Debbugs-Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Received: via spool by submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B.13002192417083 (code B ref -1); Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:01:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 15 Mar 2011 20:00:41 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PzaQ4-0001q9-HS for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:00:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PzaLR-0001j4-Rz for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:55:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PzaLL-0005UO-VV for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:55:48 -0400 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]:34028) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PzaLL-0005UK-SS for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:55:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51192 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PzaLK-0007uI-U8 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:55:47 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PzaLJ-0005U1-6o for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:55:46 -0400 Original-Received: from dd24230.kasserver.com ([85.13.143.176]:46708) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PzaLJ-0005Tw-0N for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:55:45 -0400 Original-Received: from bravo.mueller-schleicher.de (p57ADB606.dip.t-dialin.net [87.173.182.6]) by dd24230.kasserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id D734C4A80AF for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:55:43 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by bravo.mueller-schleicher.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4BB315C251; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:55:43 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:00:37 -0400 X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:01:02 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:45054 Archived-At: Hi, browse-url-of-dired-file signals an error if the user attempts to browse one of the special file names '.' or '..'. I see no reason why it should not be possible to browse these file names like any other directory file name. Below is a patch together with a change log entry. 2011-03-11 Ralph Schleicher * net/browse-url.el (browse-url-of-dired-file): Enable browsing of special file names `.' and `..'. --- emacs-23.3/lisp/net/browse-url.el.orig 2011-01-08 12:45:14 +0100 +++ emacs-23.3/lisp/net/browse-url.el 2011-03-11 11:42:23 +0100 @@ -756,7 +756,10 @@ (defun browse-url-of-dired-file () "In Dired, ask a WWW browser to display the file named on this line." (interactive) - (browse-url-of-file (dired-get-filename))) + (let ((tem (dired-get-filename t t))) + (if (null tem) + (error "No file on this line") + (browse-url-of-file (expand-file-name tem default-directory))))) ;;;###autoload (defun browse-url-of-region (min max) -- Ralph