From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: suvayu ali Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Editing files in the cloud - google notebook/dropbox or something else Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:25:48 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87y5xrmmvv.fsf@gmx.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1316003188 20519 80.91.229.12 (14 Sep 2011 12:26:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:26:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Johnny Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 14 14:26:25 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 1R3oXo-0001fb-Sw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:26:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36536 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R3oXo-0004XL-Ar for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 08:26:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:40552) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R3oXe-0004OM-Sy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 08:26:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R3oXd-0008QG-IL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 08:26:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ww0-f49.google.com ([74.125.82.49]:46564) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R3oXd-0008Q5-E1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 08:26:13 -0400 Original-Received: by wwp14 with SMTP id 14so1722492wwp.30 for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 05:26:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=3BdBqxstJ9yDsRqt9pj2ScM3Izqm2g6kwZAL/tr1K4U=; b=e/sa4DhxpvolalSI4ETMK9ZNQVmfY1Q3zLrhwMhyJPoyONtPXo9zRk0TeGIV65DOkr EGrjnqeJYUIgWfePgBe7o8FowWqTUHO2+n4yd849blb01zuV8kFuGZmhBAxx1p6lPXj3 MvdgMSUKdreNPcD52CJH13sXoEEksdPu/z88c= Original-Received: by 10.216.141.196 with SMTP id g46mr2175848wej.80.1316003172170; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 05:26:12 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.216.174.200 with HTTP; Wed, 14 Sep 2011 05:25:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87y5xrmmvv.fsf@gmx.co.uk> X-Google-Sender-Auth: kMEV0egbUiTMLFD8jyAsVpFK4Qg X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 74.125.82.49 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:82224 Archived-At: 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. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.