* eshell/wget: a minimalistic wget for eshell
@ 2021-10-06 16:11 Eduardo Ochs
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From: Eduardo Ochs @ 2021-10-06 16:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Emacs developers, John Wiegley
Hi all (and John Wiegley),
I wrote a function eshell/wget - or eshell/fakewget - that uses
url-retrieve-synchronously to download files from the internets.
It is here (and eev is in ELPA):
http://angg.twu.net/eev-current/eev-plinks.el
http://angg.twu.net/eev-current/eev-plinks.el.html#find-urlretrieve
I don't recommend using it for big files because it doesn't output any
progress reports until it finishes. I wrote it for a workshop that
will have several participants who are Windows users who have never
used a terminal in their lives - see this thread:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2021-10/msg00037.html
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2021-10/threads.html#00037
but I think that it may be useful in other situations, too.
I don't know how to advertise it. I looked for an index of
user-written eshell extensions and I only found this:
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/EshellExtensions
and I thought that it would be a good idea to announce it here first -
and ask for advice.
Cheers =),
Eduardo Ochs
http://angg.twu.net/#eev
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