From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: (emacs+unix): How to have a file-name containing slashes, angle-brackets, etc? Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:48:42 +0200 Message-ID: <48B093CA.9040303@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1219531768 19149 80.91.229.12 (23 Aug 2008 22:49:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 22:49:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: David Combs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 24 00:50:21 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 1KX1vy-0006Wi-NS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:50:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38507 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KX1v0-0003cJ-Rw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:49:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KX1uh-0003cE-Oi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:48:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KX1uf-0003YA-0k for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:48:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37274 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KX1ue-0003Xo-RV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:48:52 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]:58445) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KX1ue-0006wP-CX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:48:52 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-176.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.176]:62927 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KX1uc-0003a4-6V; Sun, 24 Aug 2008 00:48:50 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080823-0, 2008-08-23), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.151.176 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KX1uc-0003a4-6V. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1KX1uc-0003a4-6V 3a00271f69c7682e4d1baefeabc507f1 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:56929 Archived-At: David Combs wrote: > 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? (expand-file-name "www.aaa.com/~john/foo.txt" historyOfEmacsDir)