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Eww in Emacs 24.4 refuses to open local files

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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: kelly <at> prtime.org, ivan <at> siamics.net, 19472 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19472: Eww in Emacs 24.4 refuses to open local files
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 11:46:43 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
>> Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 10:30:35 +0100
>> Cc: kelly <at> prtime.org, ivan <at> siamics.net
>> 
>> 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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