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Eww in Emacs 24.4 refuses to open local files

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From: Ivan Shmakov <ivan <at> siamics.net>
To: 19472 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19472: Eww in Emacs 24.4 refuses to open local files 
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 10:59:18 +0000

>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:
>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>>>>> From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen  Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 10:30:35 +0100

 >>> 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.

	Like, perhaps, the strings matching "^\\([a-z]:\\)?/"?

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