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

From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 10:18:48 +0100

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> Beware: file-exists-p calls file handlers, and can return non-nil for
>> remote files.  Not sure you want that here.
>
> Hm...  I think that would usually be fine?  If it's a file accessible
> via Tramp (for instance), I think the user would normally want eww to
> display it.

Usually, it is the other way around: if `url-handler-mode' is enabled,
one shall be able to open a URL like "ssh://user@host/path/to/file".

Hmm, doesn't seem to work just now. Need to debug.

Best regards, Michael.