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26.3; eww-open-file is not working with a Tramp file name

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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: "H. Dieter Wilhelm" <dieter <at> duenenhof-wilhelm.de>, 40425 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40425: 26.3; eww-open-file is not working with a Tramp file name
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 18:25:54 +0200

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

Hi Lars,

> I'm just wondering on what level this should be fixed at.  eww could add
> further support for these relative links itself, or the url-file.el
> library could grow some overrides to allow following Tramp file
> names...  Hm...  The latter seems easier to implement, but I feel that
> perhaps the former is what makes most sense.

There is url-tramp-file-handler, called from url-file-handler (package
url-handlers.el). I haven't tried it for a long time, prick me if there
are problems.

Best regards, Michael.

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