bug#40269: Emacs should recognize "file:" when opening files

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> writes:

> Well emacs is an editor so I suppose it should edit it.
> But OK it could also browse if it insists.
> Anything is better than the current behavior of totally not being
> prepared for file:/// .

I don't know whether that makes sense at all.  I just don't see the use
case of feeding an URL to Emacs and then expecting to be able to start
editing it.  It's a pretty obscure thing to want to happen.

So I'm closing this bug report.

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