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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: 19472 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19472: Eww in Emacs 24.4 refuses to open local files
Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 12:04:52 +0100

Ivan Shmakov <ivan <at> siamics.net> writes:

>>>>>> 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]:\\)?/"?

Yeah, perhaps.  Does have a "does this string look like a file name if
you squint at it?" function?

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