Subject: Re: bug#19472: Eww in Emacs 24.4 refuses to open local files

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 11:46:43 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
>> Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 10:30:35 +0100
>> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
>> 
>> If the URL is "/some/file/that/exists" or starts with "file:" and you
>> can then make (sort of) sense of it, then `M-x eww' should load that
>> file.
>
> What about "d:/some/file/that/exists" on Windows?

Sure, that too.  The DWIM code should call `file-exists-p' a bit on
strings that look like they could possibly be files.

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