Subject: Re: bug#47809: emacs file:///

From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2021 09:40:13 +0200

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <[email-masked]> writes:

> $ emacs file:///home/jidanni/jidanni.org/geo/house_numbering/presentation.html
> File mode specification error: (file-missing Setting current directory No such file or directory /home/jidanni/file:/home/jidanni/jidanni.org/geo/house_numbering/)
>
> Can't it be smarter?

M-x url-handler-mode

Although it visits the file, there's a spurious "File exists, but cannot
be read" message, likely something goes wrong internally.

Best regards, Michael.