GNU bug report logs - #42431
28.0.50; browse-url-of-dired-file confusing messaging

Previous Next

Package: emacs;

Reported by: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2020 19:35:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in versions 28.0.91, 28.0.50, 28.0.60

Fixed in version 29.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

Full log

View this message in rfc822 format

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: michael.albinus <at> gmx.de, 42431 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42431: 28.0.50; browse-url-of-dired-file confusing messaging
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2020 10:46:55 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2020 00:24:23 +0200
> Cc: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
> 
> (browse-url-of-file "/tmp/a.txt")
> 
> The message originates from here, sort of:
> 
> (defun find-file-noselect-1 (buf filename nowarn rawfile truename number)
> 
> [...]
> 
> 	  (condition-case ()
> 	      (let ((inhibit-read-only t))
> 		(insert-file-contents-literally filename t))
> 	    (file-error
> 	     (when (and (file-exists-p filename)
> 			(not (file-readable-p filename)))
> 	       (kill-buffer buf)
> 	       (signal 'file-error (list "File is not readable"
> 					 filename)))

Is this because file-readable-p returns nil for file:// URLs?
This bug report was last modified 2 years and 218 days ago.

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.