How to fetch a URL to an Emacs buffer?

How to fetch a URL to an Emacs buffer?

[kj]

Is there an Emacs command that would load a given URL into an Emacs
buffer?

Normally I would 1) switch to a browser; 2) visit the desired URL;
3) use the browser's "Save as..." command to save the URL's content;
4) switch back to Emacs; and 5) open the downloaded file, but this
but this song-and-dance can get cumbersome after a while.

If the function I'm interested in doesn't exist, is there something
close that I could hack?  Basically I need Emacs functions to send
and receive HTTP messages.

TIA!

kj

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Re: How to fetch a URL to an Emacs buffer?

[David Hansen]

On Sun, 11 Mar 2007 14:40:10 +0000 (UTC) kj wrote:

> Is there an Emacs command that would load a given URL into an Emacs
> buffer?
>
> Normally I would 1) switch to a browser; 2) visit the desired URL;
> 3) use the browser's "Save as..." command to save the URL's content;
> 4) switch back to Emacs; and 5) open the downloaded file, but this
> but this song-and-dance can get cumbersome after a while.

Make Emacs your browser :)  http://emacs-w3m.namazu.org/

If you want to do it from lisp there's the url.el package that is
part of Emacs 22, there's always the quick and dirty solution with a
shell and wget.

David

Re: How to fetch a URL to an Emacs buffer?

[Peter Danenberg]

> Is there an Emacs command that would load a given URL into an Emacs
> buffer?


     What about `C-u C-M-! curl -s google.com'?

Re: How to fetch a URL to an Emacs buffer?

[Robert D. Crawford]

Peter Danenberg <pcd@wikitex.org> writes:

>> Is there an Emacs command that would load a given URL into an Emacs
>> buffer?
>
>      What about `C-u C-M-! curl -s google.com'?

Shouldn't that be C-u C-! curl -s google.com'?  

rdc
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Re: How to fetch a URL to an Emacs buffer?

[Hadron]

"Robert D. Crawford" <rdc1x@comcast.net> writes:

> Peter Danenberg <pcd@wikitex.org> writes:
>
>>> Is there an Emacs command that would load a given URL into an Emacs
>>> buffer?
>>
>>      What about `C-u C-M-! curl -s google.com'?
>
> Shouldn't that be C-u C-! curl -s google.com'?  
>
> rdc

What command is either of them? I cant issue either from my kbd.

Re: How to fetch a URL to an Emacs buffer?

[Robert D. Crawford]

Hadron <hadronquark@gmail.com> writes:

> "Robert D. Crawford" <rdc1x@comcast.net> writes:
>>
>> Shouldn't that be C-u C-! curl -s google.com'?  
>
> What command is either of them? I cant issue either from my kbd.

On my system, and I am pretty sure this is the default keybinding:

 meta !  runs the command shell-command
  which is an interactive compiled Lisp function in `simple.el'.
It is bound to  meta ! ,  <menu-bar> <tools> <shell> .
(shell-command COMMAND &optional OUTPUT-BUFFER ERROR-BUFFER)

Execute string COMMAND in inferior shell; display output, if any.
With prefix argument, insert the COMMAND's output at point.

rdc
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Re: How to fetch a URL to an Emacs buffer?

[David Hansen]

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:25:30 +0100 Hadron wrote:

> "Robert D. Crawford" <rdc1x@comcast.net> writes:
>
>> Peter Danenberg <pcd@wikitex.org> writes:
>>
>>>> Is there an Emacs command that would load a given URL into an Emacs
>>>> buffer?
>>>
>>>      What about `C-u C-M-! curl -s google.com'?
>>
>> Shouldn't that be C-u C-! curl -s google.com'?  
>>
>> rdc
>
> What command is either of them? I cant issue either from my kbd.

I think they wanted to say C-u M-! aka `shell-command' :)

Re: How to fetch a URL to an Emacs buffer?

[Peter Danenberg]

> I think they wanted to say C-u M-! aka `shell-command' :)


     You're  right, David; a spurious ctrl slipped in (which
happens to work, by the way, in my Emacs).

Re: How to fetch a URL to an Emacs buffer?

[Robert D. Crawford]

David Hansen <david.hansen@gmx.net> writes:

> On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:25:30 +0100 Hadron wrote:
>
>> "Robert D. Crawford" <rdc1x@comcast.net> writes:
>>
>>> Shouldn't that be C-u C-! curl -s google.com'?  

> I think they wanted to say C-u M-! aka `shell-command' :)

Oops.  Pretty lame when I screw up and my correction has to be
corrected.  

Thanks and apologies,
rdc
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