From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Patch for remote files in dnd.el Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 13:37:24 +0100 Message-ID: <44CA0504.1070407@gnu.org> References: <7dbe73ed0607280025p798da741v285380ed5c3c49d1@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1154090293 29724 80.91.229.2 (28 Jul 2006 12:38:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 12:38:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jan_Dj=E4rv?= , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 28 14:38:11 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G6RbW-0007II-KP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 14:38:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G6RbW-0001GS-1X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:38:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G6RbE-0001EP-4S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:37:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G6RbC-0001Cy-E4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:37:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G6RbC-0001Ch-6S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:37:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [213.86.207.50] (helo=exchange.integrasp.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G6RdB-0007fp-8S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 08:39:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.111.61] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by exchange.integrasp.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id NMA8FAGP; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 13:29:14 +0100 Original-Received: from 192.168.111.61 ([192.168.111.61] helo=[192.168.111.61]) by ASSP-nospam; 28 Jul 2006 13:29:14 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060516 Thunderbird/1.5.0.4 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 Original-To: Mathias Dahl In-Reply-To: <7dbe73ed0607280025p798da741v285380ed5c3c49d1@mail.gmail.com> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:57735 Archived-At: Mathias Dahl wrote: > Can you explain a bit more what functionality this patch adds? I have > always (as far back as have used Emacs, which is since 1997) been able > to open remote files just by dragging and dropping them into Emacs. > For example, I just dnd:d the file > "\\Gbgfs1\archive2004-1\Docman\Core\Docman 5.9.0\Docman\access.api" > into Emacs. In CVS Emacs? This used to work, because on Windows, we just blindly passed the filename to find-file. But in CVS Emacs, there is a new cross-platform drag and drop library, which prints "Remote files not supported" if a remote file is dragged onto Emacs. I only noticed this recently, and wrote this patch to fix it.