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bug#19472: Eww in Emacs 24.4 refuses to open local files
From: |
Ivan Shmakov |
Subject: |
bug#19472: Eww in Emacs 24.4 refuses to open local files |
Date: |
Thu, 01 Jan 2015 11:12:20 +0000 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) |
Tags: notabug
>>>>> Kelly Dean <kelly@prtime.org> writes:
>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:
>> Works for me on the Emacs 24 branch:
>> `M-x eww RET file:///tmp/cert.html RET'
> I get the error ⌜This function requires Emacs to be compiled with
> libxml2⌝.
> IOW, I can't read.
> In my defense, ⌜/home/test/test.html⌝ produced the error ⌜/80 Name or
> service not known⌝,
This could probably be improved, – either the error message, or
the treatment of URIs which look like (absolute?) filenames.
> 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.”
> so by the time I tried ⌜file:///home/test/test.html⌝ and the debugger
> popped up yet again, I assumed the error was just another complaint
> about my syntax.
> Sorry for the mistaken bug report.
ACK, closing.
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