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

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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.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.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 16:08:58 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> 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?

I just thought all of this was supposed to work without doing any
mangling of the "file name" -- in this case it's an URL, but presumably
there are other file handlers for non-file stuff that Emacs treats are
files that have the same problem.

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