> From: Glenn Morris <r...@gnu.org> > Cc: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaz...@gmail.com>, sva-n...@mygooglest.com, > b...@altern.org, 16...@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 13:41:14 -0500 > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > >> file:path > >> > >> is a valid file link type in Org. Therefore, > [...] > > But that's exactly the problem: producing a file name from a file:// > > URL requires to remove the "file://" prefix. It is invalid to leave > > the 2 extra slashes and remove only "file:". Why does Org do that? > > Presumably because Org decided to use "file:" rather than standard > "file://" URI, hence leading to exactly this confusion.
That cannot be right, though, can it? If Org wants to support file:/foo, fine, but then it should try the standard file:///foo before falling back on non-standard forms, I think. Am I missing something?
