url-dired.el requires w3

url-dired.el requires w3

[Diane Murray]

(url-retrieve-synchronously "ftp://ftp.gnu.org/") opens a dired buffer
in `url-dired-minor-mode'.  Pressing RET on a file there calls
`url-dired-find-file', yet url-dired-find-file uses `w3-fetch' and
`w3-open-local' which are not part of Emacs.  The following patch
changes it to use `find-file'.  w3 has its own w3-dired.el file, so
users of w3 will still have that functionality.


	* url-dired.el: Don't require w3-fetch and w3-open-local.
	(url-dired-find-file): Use `find-file'.  Doc fix.
	(url-dired-find-file-mouse, url-dired-minor-mode): Doc fix.


Index: url-dired.el
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/emacs/emacs/lisp/url/url-dired.el,v
retrieving revision 1.10.2.1
diff -u -r1.10.2.1 url-dired.el
--- url-dired.el	25 Jul 2007 04:18:22 -0000	1.10.2.1
+++ url-dired.el	21 Nov 2007 03:16:55 -0000
@@ -24,8 +24,6 @@
 
 ;;; Code:
 
-(autoload 'w3-fetch "w3")
-(autoload 'w3-open-local "w3")
 (autoload 'dired-get-filename "dired")
 
 (defvar url-dired-minor-mode-map
@@ -41,22 +39,19 @@
 (make-variable-buffer-local 'url-dired-minor-mode)
 
 (defun url-dired-find-file ()
-  "In dired, visit the file or directory named on this line, using Emacs-W3."
+  "In dired, visit the file or directory named on this line."
   (interactive)
   (let ((filename (dired-get-filename)))
-    (cond ((string-match "/\\(.*@.*\\):\\(/.*\\)" filename)
-	   (w3-fetch (concat "file://" (match-string 1 filename) (match-string 2 filename))))
-	  (t
-	   (w3-open-local filename)))))
+    (find-file filename)))
 
 (defun url-dired-find-file-mouse (event)
-  "In dired, visit the file or directory name you click on, using Emacs-W3."
+  "In dired, visit the file or directory name you click on."
   (interactive "@e")
   (mouse-set-point event)
   (url-dired-find-file))
 
 (defun url-dired-minor-mode (&optional arg)
-  "Minor mode for directory browsing with Emacs-W3."
+  "Minor mode for directory browsing."
   (interactive "P")
   (cond
    ((null arg)

Re: url-dired.el requires w3

[Stefan Monnier]

> (url-retrieve-synchronously "ftp://ftp.gnu.org/") opens a dired buffer
> in `url-dired-minor-mode'.  Pressing RET on a file there calls
> `url-dired-find-file', yet url-dired-find-file uses `w3-fetch' and
> `w3-open-local' which are not part of Emacs.  The following patch
> changes it to use `find-file'.  w3 has its own w3-dired.el file, so
> users of w3 will still have that functionality.

> 	* url-dired.el: Don't require w3-fetch and w3-open-local.
> 	(url-dired-find-file): Use `find-file'.  Doc fix.
> 	(url-dired-find-file-mouse, url-dired-minor-mode): Doc fix.

It's good to remove this dependency on W3, but `find-file' will not work
unless the user enabled url-handler-mode.


        Stefan

Re: url-dired.el requires w3

[Diane Murray]

>> 	* url-dired.el: Don't require w3-fetch and w3-open-local.
>> 	(url-dired-find-file): Use `find-file'.  Doc fix.
>> 	(url-dired-find-file-mouse, url-dired-minor-mode): Doc fix.

> It's good to remove this dependency on W3, but `find-file' will not
> work unless the user enabled url-handler-mode.

I thought so, too, at first, but the filenames are in tramp/ange-ftp
format: "/anonymous@ftp.gnu.org:/README".  The old code changed remote
filenames into URLs so that `w3-fetch' could deal with them.

Diane Murray

Re: url-dired.el requires w3

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> * url-dired.el: Don't require w3-fetch and w3-open-local.
>>> (url-dired-find-file): Use `find-file'.  Doc fix.
>>> (url-dired-find-file-mouse, url-dired-minor-mode): Doc fix.

>> It's good to remove this dependency on W3, but `find-file' will not
>> work unless the user enabled url-handler-mode.

> I thought so, too, at first, but the filenames are in tramp/ange-ftp
> format: "/anonymous@ftp.gnu.org:/README".  The old code changed remote
> filenames into URLs so that `w3-fetch' could deal with them.

Hmm.. indeed url-dired isn't what I thought.  The file needs
a `commentary' section to explain what it does (and intends to do).

It seems it's only used via url-find-file-dired called from url-file (in
url-file.el).  Is that right?


        Stefan

Re: url-dired.el requires w3

[Diane Murray]

> It seems it's only used via url-find-file-dired called from url-file
> (in url-file.el).  Is that right?

Yes, it's only used on ftp and file (and possibly nfs) URLs.

Diane Murray

Re: url-dired.el requires w3

[Richard Stallman]

What happens with your change if the user has installed w3 but it is
not loaded into Emacs?

Would it be correct to use browse-url rather than w3?
browse-url is always included in Emacs.

Re: url-dired.el requires w3

[Diane Murray]

> What happens with your change if the user has installed w3 but it is
> not loaded into Emacs?

I don't quite understand what you're asking here.  My change removes
all w3 dependency.

> Would it be correct to use browse-url rather than w3?
> browse-url is always included in Emacs.

Since url-dired is used for ftp and file URLs only, and ange-ftp and
tramp take care of such remote directories and files, I think it's
unnecessary to hand things off to a web browser via browse-url.  In
fact, the directories are under ange-ftp or tramp's control already -
`url-find-file-dired' uses `find-file' to open the directory, and only
`RET' and `mouse-2' are redefined in `url-dired-minor-mode'.

Diane Murray

Re: url-dired.el requires w3

[Glenn Morris]

Diane Murray wrote:

> 	* url-dired.el: Don't require w3-fetch and w3-open-local.
> 	(url-dired-find-file): Use `find-file'.  Doc fix.
> 	(url-dired-find-file-mouse, url-dired-minor-mode): Doc fix.

Thanks; installed.