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

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: 42431 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42431: 28.0.50; browse-url-of-dired-file confusing messaging
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2020 21:37:38 +0200

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

> All this is very confusing, because the doc string of the command is
>
> --
> In Dired, ask a WWW browser to display the file named on this line.
> --
>
> So it should just call `browse-url' on the file:// URL, and not do
> anything about these buffers?

Ah, it's because of this --

(defvar browse-url-default-handlers
  '(("\\`mailto:" . browse-url--mailto)
    ("\\`man:" . browse-url--man)
    (browse-url--non-html-file-url-p . browse-url-emacs))

browse-url on a file that doesn't have .html in it will now not open a
browser at all, but instead an Emacs buffer.

In any case, the messaging is misleading and the buffer name is
confusing.

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