From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: enhancement to M-x telnet
Date: 16 Apr 2004 12:43:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m38ygw8aq1.fsf@kfs-l.imdomain.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <je4qrljld9.fsf@sykes.suse.de>
Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:
> storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes:
>
> > I frequently use telnet to check connections to other hosts, and as such I need
> > to specify an alternative port number to connect to.
> >
> > The following patch allows you to append the port number to the hostname,
> > e.g.
> > M-x telnet RET gnu.org:80 RET
> >
> > An alternative interface would be to specify the port number as a numeric
> > prefix arg, but that seems rather obscure IMO.
>
> How about letting it read the port interactively when called with a prefix
> arg? Or maybe C-u to read interactively, other numeric prefixes specify
> the port directly. This would allow implementing completion on port
> names.
Yes, that's also a viable approach... (even without port name completion).
WDOT?
--
Kim F. Storm <storm@cua.dk> http://www.cua.dk
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-16 10:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-15 16:54 enhancement to M-x telnet Kim F. Storm
2004-04-15 15:45 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-04-16 10:43 ` Kim F. Storm [this message]
2004-04-16 9:01 ` Mario Lang
2004-04-16 13:35 ` Kim F. Storm
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