From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tekk Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Google Drive Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 11:41:21 -0400 Message-ID: <20120502114121.14b0b01d@Jean-luc> References: <337BF2A1-085D-4CA0-A8FB-A18C321F17BB@mit.edu> <1335892465.2966.5.camel@dell-desktop.example.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1335973352 5057 80.91.229.3 (2 May 2012 15:42:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 15:42:32 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 02 17:42:31 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 1SPbhF-0003t4-HB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 May 2012 17:42:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49331 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SPbhE-0007BA-PW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 May 2012 11:42:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:58945) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SPbhA-0007Ax-9t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 May 2012 11:42:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SPbh8-0006iZ-6p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 May 2012 11:42:23 -0400 Original-Received: from li281-170.members.linode.com ([173.255.255.170]:49239 helo=parlementum.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SPbh8-0006i5-0h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 May 2012 11:42:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Jean-luc (cpe-071-077-203-175.ec.res.rr.com [71.77.203.175]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: tekk) by parlementum.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 03003280FB for ; Wed, 2 May 2012 08:42:17 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1335892465.2966.5.camel@dell-desktop.example.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 173.255.255.170 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:150216 Archived-At: On Tue, 01 May 2012 10:14:25 -0700 Thomas Lord wrote: > 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 > > > > > > > > > SparkleShare and OwnCloud. SparkleShare is basically a pretty wrapper around git, OwnCloud is a proper system.