From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: (emacs+unix): How to have a file-name containing slashes, angle-brackets, etc? Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:57:39 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1219531379 18265 80.91.229.12 (23 Aug 2008 22:42:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:42:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 24 00:43:52 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KX1pm-0005Cm-Rw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:43:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49260 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KX1op-0000Yn-3F for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:42:51 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!panix!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 40 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: panix2.panix.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.panix.com 1219528659 11232 166.84.1.2 (23 Aug 2008 21:57:39 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:57:39 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:161580 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:56926 Archived-At: In article , The Badger wrote: >Hello David, > >Just a thought: Trying to encode the path of the remote file into the >filename after downloading seems weird. Why not just re-create the >folder structure? > >For example, if you download > >http://www.aaa.com/~john/foo-txt.htm > >then you would have the following file on your disk: > >/home/david/my web downloads/www.aaa.com/~john/foo.txt > >Isn't that what pretty much what `wget', or any other web downloader >tool would do? Thanks for the suggestion For some (many?) purposes, yes, Like for downloading an entire tree, of course. But say I'm grabbing files about a given subject. I google the subject-name, and find some stuff here, some there, some of them buried way down in some dir-structure -- and for this kind of thing, I want all of them that I've checked out to be good stuff to be stuffed into the same directory, like maybe myHistoryDoc/historyOfEmacs/ What then? Thanks, David