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24.3.50; shr-visit-file doesn't set the buffer's default-directory

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Message #11 received at 16243 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 16243 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16243: 24.3.50;
 shr-visit-file doesn't set the buffer's default-directory
Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 22:56:01 +0200

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: 16243 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 24 Dec 2013 21:14:58 +0100
> 
> But if we keep the command, then it should be altered to pass the
> directory in as the HTTP base URL, which would make the URLs point to
> the right thing without altering default-directory.

Not really sure what you meant here.  shr-visit-file is about local
files, right?  So what URL and which HTTP are relevant here, and why?

> But setting default-directory might also be nice -- do "special mode"
> buffers usually do so or not?

Which special mode buffers?  I actually don't quite understand why
buffer-file-name isn't set to the name of the file we visit.

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