Subject: bug#40269: Emacs should recognize "file:" when opening files

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2020 16:41:41 +0300

> From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
>  <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2020 13:55:45 +0800
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> >>>>> "LI" == Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]> writes:
> LI> 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> >> Emacs should recognize file:///home/bla/bla/h.html
> >> That way users could do
> >> $ set file:///home/bla/bla/h.html
> >> $ $BROWSER $@
> >> $ emacs $@
> >> etc. and they would all work the same!
> >> No I don't want to use extensions.
> 
> LI> What should it do with this input?  Start eww?  Edit h.html?
> 
> Well emacs is an editor so I suppose it should edit it.
> But OK it could also browse if it insists.
> Anything is better than the current behavior of totally not being
> prepared for file:/// .

Is there an actual use case here, or are we inventing it as we go?