From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: file://host/location URLs Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:27:00 +0900 Message-ID: <87k3tj6iez.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <50A57E1A.4040109@dancol.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1353252439 10921 80.91.229.3 (18 Nov 2012 15:27:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 15:27:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Daniel Colascione , Emacs discussions To: James Cloos Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 18 16:27:30 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 1Ta6mM-0004Zf-6X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 16:27:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43147 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ta6mB-0002I1-Tk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 10:27:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:33847) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ta6m7-0002Gp-E8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 10:27:14 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ta6m4-0002cV-Cd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 10:27:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:55423) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ta6m4-0002a9-2d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2012 10:27:08 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt2.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6333C9708C6; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:27:00 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 26A621A2778; Mon, 19 Nov 2012 00:27:00 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta32) "habanero" b0d40183ac79 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.224 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:154909 Archived-At: James Cloos writes: > Only file:/// or file://localhost/ should point to the local > filesystem. file://example.org/foo.bar is a valid uri to some > resource on example.org using some (unspecified) access method. > > Whether emacs still should handle URIs of that form, and if so > how, are /interesting/ questions. The question is whether file://remote-host/ URIs are out there in the wild. (Stefan and Daniel, you guys should be ashamed of yourselves, users are unlikely to use file: themselves -- so especially in that situation Emacs should DTRT *for* them.) > (Back in the day, ftp /was/ the correct answer. Perhaps not any more?) I would hope that "emacs file://host/foo" is equivalent to "ssh host emacs file:///foo". For ftpds running in a chroot, that won't be the case. So I would prefer scp or ssh to FTP here. (Why, yes, We Are Not Human, We Are TRAMPs!)