From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Pascal Quesseveur <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 13:10:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tu49cn6n.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83mta1cxjk.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 12 Oct 2022 10:26:39 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> emacs -Q
>> (browse-url-emacs "file://C:/Windows/win.ini") -> Emacs hangs, nothing
>> is displayed, C-g
>> (browse-url-emacs "file:///C:/Windows/win.ini") -> file content is
>> displayed, Message buffer contains:
>>
>> File exists, but cannot be read
>> #<buffer win.ini</Windows>>
>
> With Emacs 29, I get a different message:
>
> Use M-x make-directory RET RET to create the directory and its parents
>
> That's because the file's name and its default-directory are
> incorrect:
>
> M-: buffer-file-name RET
> => X:/C:/Windows/win.ini
> M-: default-directory RET
> => X:/C:/Windows/
>
> (where X is the driver letter of what happens to be the current drive
> when I invoke Emacs).
Was this with the first or the second URL?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-12 11:10 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 [this message]
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
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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