From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thomas Lord Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Google Drive Date: Tue, 01 May 2012 10:14:25 -0700 Message-ID: <1335892465.2966.5.camel@dell-desktop.example.com> References: <337BF2A1-085D-4CA0-A8FB-A18C321F17BB@mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1335892480 28314 80.91.229.3 (1 May 2012 17:14:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 17:14:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Paul Michael Reilly , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: chad Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 01 19:14:39 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SPGes-00055q-Oo for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 May 2012 19:14:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44128 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SPGes-0007NC-3K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 May 2012 13:14:38 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:45407) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SPGek-0007Fp-HC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 May 2012 13:14:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SPGei-0005hp-OY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 May 2012 13:14:30 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp181.dfw.emailsrvr.com ([67.192.241.181]:37561) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SPGei-0005gO-JV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 May 2012 13:14:28 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp8.relay.dfw1a.emailsrvr.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 90AAB82DD; Tue, 1 May 2012 13:14:26 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: OK Original-Received: by smtp8.relay.dfw1a.emailsrvr.com (Authenticated sender: lord-AT-emf.net) with ESMTPSA id 149C48154; Tue, 1 May 2012 13:14:26 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <337BF2A1-085D-4CA0-A8FB-A18C321F17BB@mit.edu> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 67.192.241.181 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:150182 Archived-At: Are there any free software packages that provide functionality like DropBox or GoogleDrive? Are there any companies that sell the utility service of hosting that software, with freedom-respecting terms of service and security features such as optional encryption of stored data? To me it seems like there *should* be lots and lots of small businesses doing that at a modest, fair price mark-up. And then lots of GNU software, including Emacs, should support that functionality. -t On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 10:02 -0700, chad wrote: > On May 1, 2012, at 7:52 AM, Paul Michael Reilly wrote: > > > Has anyone started to add support to Emacs so that Google Drive can be treated as a usable directory? Using dired on a development instance of Emacs 24 yields the error message: "Format specifier doesn't match argument type" > > > > I have to confess that I love the concept of editing some files on my desktop computer at home, grab my laptop and head to lunch at some local spot with wifi and continue to work on my documents WITHOUT having to do anything special, like use Tramp or a source controlled environment or sshfs, etc. Of course, one has be aware of privacy settings so that you either make the documents deliberately public, deliberately private or something in between. > > I've been doing this for years with DropBox and no special effort, and I'm surprised that it doesn't Just Work in this case. I just set up Google Drive and it seems to work fine (well, except that most of the documents in it are useless inside emacs). > > Could you maybe give some more details or file a bug report? > > *Chad > > >