Re: Workshop to save M$ Windows users - help needed

[Tomas Hlavaty <tom@logand.com>]

On Sun 03 Oct 2021 at 16:15, Eduardo Ochs <eduardoochs@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 3 Oct 2021 at 07:41, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Do you really need that?  The Windows Explorer can unzip files just
>> fine, and a browser or Emacs itself can be used to fetch files.
>   mkdir -p $S/http/www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
>   cd       $S/http/www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
>   wget -nc 'http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-paper.html'
> [...]
> So several things in the workshop will be much easier if everybody has
> wget in the path.

Emacs should be able to download the files even on Windows without
installing wget, e.g. this should work:

(eww "http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-paper.html")

There is a variable url-cache-directory suggesting that caching can
happen transparently.  Maybe you could even supply your own
url-cache-creation-function.  Or figure out what functions you could
reuse to simulate wget and your caching strategy in pure Emacs more
closely.

I know you want to do it manually, but why bother beginners with that?