From: chad <yandros@MIT.EDU>
To: Paul Michael Reilly <pmr@pajato.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Google Drive
Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 10:02:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <337BF2A1-085D-4CA0-A8FB-A18C321F17BB@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGwjgEi=rNN3PtZKzmVYXJWv84L6=EH2xx7wq_SQm0M6nqGzng@mail.gmail.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-01 17:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-01 14:52 Google Drive Paul Michael Reilly
2012-05-01 17:02 ` chad [this message]
2012-05-01 17:14 ` Thomas Lord
2012-05-01 17:19 ` Geoffrey Teale
2012-05-01 17:29 ` Thomas Lord
2012-05-01 17:48 ` chad
2012-05-02 1:13 ` CFP " Thomas Lord
2012-05-02 5:50 ` David Engster
2012-05-02 7:01 ` Lennart Borgman
2012-05-02 15:41 ` Tekk
2012-05-01 17:23 ` Paul Michael Reilly
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