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From: | Simon Josefsson |
Subject: | Re: URL syntax (was: Re: Tramp, "[]" in file names, and file-expand-wildcards) |
Date: | Wed, 28 Nov 2001 21:31:24 +0100 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) |
address@hidden (William M. Perry) writes: > Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes: > >> After calling >> (url-setup-file-name-handlers) manually, I could do C-x C-v >> http://www.gnu.org/ and it did the right thing. >> >> Why is it necessary to do that manually? Is that a bug, or a feature? > > It isn't enabled automatically so that people don't get bitten by any bugs > in the support. I think there must still be some lurking somewhere > because Gnus freaks out occasionally trying to do (file-exists-p nil) The URL file name handler doesn't seem to like being nestled: (expand-file-name "foo" (file-name-as-directory (expand-file-name "foo:bar" gnus-cache-directory))) "foo:foo" it should return: (expand-file-name "foo" (file-name-as-directory (expand-file-name "foo:bar" gnus-cache-directory))) "/home/jas/News/cache/foo:bar/foo"
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