From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: David Combs <dkcombs@panix.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: (emacs+unix): How to have a file-name containing slashes, angle-brackets, etc?
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:48:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48B093CA.9040303@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <g8q14i$av0$1@reader1.panix.com>
David Combs wrote:
> In article <mailman.16876.1218850883.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
> The Badger <badgy@example.com> 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?
(expand-file-name "www.aaa.com/~john/foo.txt" historyOfEmacsDir)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-23 22:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-15 22:38 (emacs+unix): How to have a file-name containing slashes, angle-brackets, etc? David Combs
2008-08-16 18:41 ` The Badger
[not found] ` <mailman.16876.1218850883.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-23 21:57 ` David Combs
2008-08-23 22:48 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2008-08-23 22:21 ` Xah
2008-08-24 12:31 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
[not found] ` <mailman.17461.1219581096.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-24 19:12 ` Xah
2008-08-25 0:02 ` David Hansen
2008-08-25 6:12 ` David Kastrup
2008-08-25 9:03 ` Xah
[not found] ` <mailman.17478.1219622906.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-25 13:08 ` Phil Carmody
2008-08-25 20:13 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
[not found] ` <mailman.17519.1219695209.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-26 8:42 ` Xah
2008-08-26 15:02 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
[not found] ` <mailman.17589.1219762958.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-26 17:03 ` Xah
2008-08-26 20:40 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
[not found] ` <mailman.17618.1219783235.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-26 21:54 ` Xah
2008-08-27 11:58 ` Bernardo Bacic
2008-08-27 14:05 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
[not found] ` <mailman.17666.1219838494.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-27 17:10 ` Xah
[not found] ` <mailman.17676.1219845916.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-27 17:34 ` Xah
2008-08-27 19:50 ` Cor Gest
2008-08-28 9:42 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
[not found] ` <mailman.17742.1219916570.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-28 10:13 ` Xah
2008-08-28 10:49 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-28 13:29 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
[not found] ` <mailman.17755.1219930152.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-29 2:23 ` Xah
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