bug#16243: 24.3.50; shr-visit-file doesn't set the buffer's default-directory

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> Not really sure what you meant here.  shr-visit-file is about local
> files, right?  So what URL and which HTTP are relevant here, and why?

To make relative URLs expand correctly, file://directory/file/is/in
should be passed in as the base directory.

> Which special mode buffers?  I actually don't quite understand why
> buffer-file-name isn't set to the name of the file we visit.

`shr-visit-file' doesn't really visit a file.  It just does a rendering
based on it.  If `buffer-file-name' is set to the file, and you save
what you see, you destroy the .html file you see a rendering of.

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