Subject: Re: bug#30444: 26.0.90; browse-url-emacs sets default-directory to "https://"

From: Damien Cassou <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 16:44:08 +0100

Nicolas Petton <[email-masked]> writes:
> My guess is that "https://gnu.org/" should be the default directory in
> this case.

do you mean that packages shouldn't rely on default-directory being a
directory? For example, dired-jump says

   dired-insert-directory: Setting current directory: No such file or
   directory, https:/https:/https:/

and eshell has https:/ as directory (in which nothing can be done).

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