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28.0.50; browse-url-of-dired-file confusing messaging

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, michael.albinus <at> gmx.de, 42431 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42431: 28.0.50; browse-url-of-dired-file confusing messaging
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2020 17:05:14 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: michael.albinus <at> gmx.de,  42431 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Paul Eggert
>  <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2020 11:45:05 +0200
> 
> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:
> 
> > It would be, but I think this points to an error in insert-file-contents
> > itself.  I'll poke around some more...
> 
> Yup.  The error signalling comes from Finsert_file_contents.  If I make
> this change, then the confusing messaging goes away:
> 
> diff --git a/src/fileio.c b/src/fileio.c
> index 37072d9b6b..05e262b201 100644
> --- a/src/fileio.c
> +++ b/src/fileio.c
> @@ -4826,7 +4826,6 @@ because (1) it preserves some marker positions and (2) it puts less data
>    if (!NILP (visit) && current_buffer->modtime.tv_nsec < 0)
>      {
>        /* Signal an error if visiting a file that could not be opened.  */
> -      report_file_errno ("Opening input file", orig_filename, save_errno);
>      }
>  

Of course.  And that's exactly what I meant when I suggested to
convert the file:// URL to a local file name, before calling
insert-file-contents.  If we do that, the problem should go away.  Or
am I missing something?

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