buffer:// under home directory

[Kevin Ryde <user42@xxxxxxxxxx>]

With recent debian i386 emacs 24.3 and the current cvs w3m, if you have
a file foo.html in your home directory then

    M-x find-file ~/foo.html        # into buffer foo.html
    M-x w3m-browse-url buffer://foo.html

gets

    Cannot retrieve URL: file://~/foo.html

default-directory starts with a "~" when under the home directory which
it seems is no good for file://.


An expand-file-name per below does the trick.  But then I wondered if
perhaps

    (buffer-file-name (get-buffer ...))

would help if the buffer name isn't the filename, eg. foo.html<2>.

Is buffer:// a documented feature?  I suppose it could do something like
w3m-region to take the buffer content instead of the file content in
case you haven't saved, or for a non-file buffer.  But perhaps it's not
that sophisticated yet.

I struck this when tinkering with a way to have w3m preview html while
editing, and perhaps rendering buffers like a tar file member if
browsing source archive etc.  I made a copy to a temp file, but that
loses the current directory for relative links.  Perhaps there's
something better already which I don't know.

--- w3m.el.~1.1599.~	2013-04-06 07:20:42.000000000 +1100
+++ w3m.el	2013-05-20 09:23:39.000000000 +1000
@@ -9417,7 +9417,7 @@
 	(w3m-search-name-anchor fragment-part))
        ((not (string= file-part ""))
 	(w3m-goto-url (w3m-expand-url (substring url (match-beginning 4))
-				      (concat "file://" default-directory))
+				      (concat "file://" (expand-file-name default-directory)))
 		      reload charset post-data referer handler element))
        (t (w3m-message "No URL at point")))))
    ((w3m-url-valid url)


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