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bug#58464: 28.1; browse-url-emacs doesn't work for local files on Window
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#58464: 28.1; browse-url-emacs doesn't work for local files on Windows |
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Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:13:58 +0300 |
> Cc: 58464@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2022 13:09:41 +0200
>
> Pascal Quesseveur <pquessev@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > emacs -Q
> > (browse-url-emacs "file://C:/Windows/win.ini") -> Emacs hangs, nothing
> > is displayed, C-g
>
> That's the wrong syntax, but Emacs shouldn't hang...
Emacs 29 doesn't hang, at least on my system.
> > (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>>
>
> So it works fine when you use the right syntax for the URL, but the
> problem is the misleading message?
No, the misleading message is likely just a symptom of the root
cause. The root cause is that the buffer-file-name is set
incorrectly, and likewise the default-directory.
It could be that the original problem (with displaying images given by
the file:// URL) doesn't work, but that is not yet certain, AFAIU.
- bug#58464: 28.1; browse-url-emacs doesn't work for local files on Windows, Pascal Quesseveur, 2022/10/12
- bug#58464: 28.1; browse-url-emacs doesn't work for local files on Windows, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/10/12
- bug#58464: 28.1; browse-url-emacs doesn't work for local files on Windows,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#58464: 28.1; browse-url-emacs doesn't work for local files on Windows, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/10/12
- bug#58464: 28.1; browse-url-emacs doesn't work for local files on Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/10/12
- bug#58464: 28.1; browse-url-emacs doesn't work for local files on Windows, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/10/12
- bug#58464: 28.1; browse-url-emacs doesn't work for local files on Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/10/12
- bug#58464: 28.1; browse-url-emacs doesn't work for local files on Windows, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/10/12
- bug#58464: 28.1; browse-url-emacs doesn't work for local files on Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/10/12
- bug#58464: 28.1; browse-url-emacs doesn't work for local files on Windows, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/10/13
- bug#58464: 28.1; browse-url-emacs doesn't work for local files on Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/10/13
- bug#58464: 28.1; browse-url-emacs doesn't work for local files on Windows, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/10/13
- bug#58464: 28.1; browse-url-emacs doesn't work for local files on Windows, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/10/13