From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tomas Hlavaty Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Workshop to save M$ Windows users - help needed Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2021 21:44:10 +0200 Message-ID: <87r1d151x1.fsf@logand.com> References: <837deua1sd.fsf@gnu.org> <834k9y9ysj.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="30869"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: help-gnu-emacs To: Eduardo Ochs , Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 03 21:45:01 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mX7Pw-0007mE-N3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 03 Oct 2021 21:45:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60628 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mX7Pv-0004v4-7j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 03 Oct 2021 15:44:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:42236) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mX7PE-0004kN-6m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Oct 2021 15:44:16 -0400 Original-Received: from logand.com ([37.48.87.44]:52446) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mX7PC-0000oM-IV; Sun, 03 Oct 2021 15:44:15 -0400 Original-Received: by logand.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 7EFA719EB31; Sun, 3 Oct 2021 21:44:12 +0200 (CEST) X-Mailer: emacs 27.2 (via feedmail 11-beta-1 I) In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=37.48.87.44; envelope-from=tom@logand.com; helo=logand.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:133528 Archived-At: On Sun 03 Oct 2021 at 16:15, Eduardo Ochs wrote: > On Sun, 3 Oct 2021 at 07:41, Eli Zaretskii 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?