From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Johnny Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Editing files in the cloud - google notebook/dropbox or something else Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:07:15 +0100 Message-ID: <87ehzjmfwc.fsf@gmx.co.uk> References: <87y5xrmmvv.fsf@gmx.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1316009559 4109 80.91.229.12 (14 Sep 2011 14:12:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:12:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: suvayu ali Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 14 16:12:35 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R3qCT-0004LN-Pv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 16:12:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39117 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R3qCT-00009h-5Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:12:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:36616) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R3qCI-00008d-Hs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:12:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R3qCB-00055R-SK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:12:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout-eu.gmx.com ([213.165.64.43]:40791) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R3qCB-00054G-A2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 10:12:11 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 14 Sep 2011 14:12:09 -0000 Original-Received: from 78-86-131-176.zone2.bethere.co.uk (EHLO DeuxExMachina) [78.86.131.176] by mail.gmx.com (mp-eu003) with SMTP; 14 Sep 2011 16:12:09 +0200 X-Authenticated: #57368918 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19bHJ9pLNpbXIJ/QKjvJXceZjuiMTsZj4EfFdK7RG 8UClUhlCRLZyso In-Reply-To: (suvayu ali's message of "Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:25:48 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 213.165.64.43 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:82227 Archived-At: suvayu ali writes: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Johnny wrote: >> There's probably someone already doing this, which I am not, but it >> should be doable just through Ange-FTP? > > I am not so sure its as trivial as that. The cloud services the OP > mentions (Google, Dropbox etc) don't provide read write access to > files over regular network protocols. AFAIK you have to use their API > to communicate. This makes any such direct attempt to edit rather > non-trivial. Or maybe it is even easier than that? http://scicomp.dk/node/25 -- Johnny