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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 13:29:30 +0200

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

Beware: file-exists-p calls file handlers, and can return non-nil for
remote files.  Not sure you want that here.