Subject: Re: bug#58464: 28.1; browse-url-emacs doesn't work for local files on Windows

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2022 17:57:13 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

> I'm not sure I follow: file:// URLs always point to local files, no?

browse-url-emacs takes any URL, not just file:// URL.

(browse-url-emacs "https://gnus.org/") "works fine", except for the same
error messages.

>> (But also see bug#58302 -- browse-url-emacs shouldn't be calling these
>> functions at all.)
>
> How else can Emacs visit files except via insert-file-contents?  Or
> what do you mean by "these functions"?

`url-file-handler'.