Re: Emacs support for --hyperlink in ls?

[Augusto Stoffel]

On Wed,  4 May 2022 at 08:48, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

>> From: Stephen Eglen <sje30@cam.ac.uk>
>> Cc: Stephen Eglen <sje30@cam.ac.uk>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Tue, 03 May 2022 21:38:47 +0100
>> 
>> However, at least on my system, I find the following problem that I
>> think is caused by ls, rather than Emacs.  e.g.
>> 
>> $ ls --hyperlink /etc/anacrontab
>> 
>> generates the following filename (after removing the markup)
>> 
>> file://light/etc/anacrontab
>> 
>> where 'light' is the name of my laptop (running arch linux).
>> browse-url-xdg-open is my browser-function, and
>> 
>> $ xdg-open file://light/etc/anacrontab
>> 
>> generates the error:
>> 
>> xdg-open: file 'file://light/etc/anacrontab' does not exist
>
> I think TRT is to report this to the Coreutils developers as a bug in
> GNU 'ls'.

I think ls is doing TRT.  One may call 'ls --hyperlink' on a remote
machine, so a complete file URL is needed.

On my computer (running Fedora), xdg-open opens the file as expected.
So I suppose this is an issue in the OP's operating system.