From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: URL + efs confusion Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:00:27 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <8762vxz52s.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87bp5qbajp.fsf@lifelogs.com> <877hgdacmd.fsf@gmx.de> <87eial8hz1.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1289919764 6566 80.91.229.12 (16 Nov 2010 15:02:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:02:44 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 16 16:02:41 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PIN3Q-0002rQ-Rm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:02:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50494 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PIN3Q-0001hR-4a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:02:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=41811 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PIN1f-0000VB-5z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:00:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PIN1a-0006FR-Dl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:00:51 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:47235) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PIN1a-0006Er-89 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 10:00:46 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PIN1U-0001Tr-NN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:00:40 +0100 Original-Received: from p508ea83e.dip.t-dialin.net ([80.142.168.62]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:00:40 +0100 Original-Received: from dak by p508ea83e.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:00:40 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p508ea83e.dip.t-dialin.net X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:E+9e2dflDiCrZnTEDE+op7JOrnE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:132716 Archived-At: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes: > Ted Zlatanov writes: > >> I think it's better to handle file:/// URLs explicitly in the >> url-file.el code. They always specify a local file. So it should only >> ask for the local filename handlers in that case. Would there be any >> situation where that's not appropriate? > > I can't think of any situations where somebody would knowingly create a > URL with the Emacs /foo:/-syntax. Something like c: suggests itself for the mountpoint of a Windows partition or share. In particular if you want to check for Windows-proof file name handling. -- David Kastrup