From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Michael Reilly Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Google Drive Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 13:23:06 -0400 Message-ID: References: <337BF2A1-085D-4CA0-A8FB-A18C321F17BB@mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=20cf303bfad4e7b86704befcd2c7 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1335892994 32437 80.91.229.3 (1 May 2012 17:23:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 May 2012 17:23:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: chad Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 01 19:23:14 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 1SPGnB-0000aE-Lu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 May 2012 19:23:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48746 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SPGnA-0001jc-Vm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 May 2012 13:23:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46676) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SPGn8-0001jT-1S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 May 2012 13:23:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SPGn6-00088o-6V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 May 2012 13:23:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-gy0-f169.google.com ([209.85.160.169]:61907) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SPGn6-00088c-2H for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 01 May 2012 13:23:08 -0400 Original-Received: by ghrr18 with SMTP id r18so2473223ghr.0 for ; Tue, 01 May 2012 10:23:06 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:x-gm-message-state; bh=eouzuXI/X7tFi1EyQyYGGYkYmKz013mt4kX+VGILidg=; b=e3GrXGF6zRePVR0hLpwIWfGxAiQedJDAubC5MEHSdIbyK3UnqMTLaopBYbrjKAF8MW wABPjqeItYT8vRMCkjwINinB0gAkkgrBEnmOZj1cQyRzSR66RJH3GsATBBLe0EhxKGEu xJaXOV554Y9We5bthGw6hPP1WtjndM385XsvjuTrXWmEOkEtIpEy6fSFuKG2IF/iw5nx CJeEA0wVHdq8HyC5023vhxL8T7+yHfnk687nQjBQ3E7DoHa0BpMMGH16ULg4e9l4zELs yuc5MZ3toSd3T/xcKLlqKQp+67Kbo63V4CZ1LeXuXI6R7zqKCeh28H3R6yMzYoEeee8A aFEA== Original-Received: by 10.236.37.202 with SMTP id y50mr27153288yha.63.1335892986279; Tue, 01 May 2012 10:23:06 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.236.78.103 with HTTP; Tue, 1 May 2012 10:23:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <337BF2A1-085D-4CA0-A8FB-A18C321F17BB@mit.edu> X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlCNIDkaeoBT8pW/8DOsWozDFUwwKTXBQnD4t6SYLQPBItc5J3a7wkgqI9TGCcQaq1miszR X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 209.85.160.169 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:150185 Archived-At: --20cf303bfad4e7b86704befcd2c7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 1:02 PM, 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). > In that case, I'll debug the issue. Thanks for letting me know that it works for you. -pmr --20cf303bfad4e7b86704befcd2c7 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 1:02 PM, chad <yandros@m= it.edu> 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? =A0Using dired on a development instance of= Emacs 24 yields the error message: "Format specifier doesn't matc= h 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 sp= ot with wifi and continue to work on my documents WITHOUT having to do anyt= hing special, like use Tramp or a source controlled environment or sshfs, e= tc. =A0Of course, one has be aware of privacy settings so that you either m= ake 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. =A0I ju= st set up Google Drive and it seems to work fine (well, except that most of= the documents in it are useless inside emacs).

In that case, I'll debug the issue. = =A0Thanks for letting me know that it works for you.

-pmr
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