Subject: bug#5362: 23.1.91; browse-url-of-dired-file vs. files::with::colons

From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2015 14:26:57 +0100

Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]> writes:

> However, Andreas changed the regexp to only react to colons in the first
> part of the file name, which works, I guess.  But files like
>
> /www::foo.html
>
> (in the root) will still be mishandled, I think...

Such local files would be mishandled everywhere in Emacs, because they
use the remote file name syntax. They must be prefixed like
/:www::foo.html , see (info "(elisp) Magic File Names") .

Best regards, Michael.