From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Patch for remote files in dnd.el
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 13:59:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <853bb5fbow.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44FEB5AB.3060605@gnu.org> (Jason Rumney's message of "Wed, 06 Sep 2006 12:48:59 +0100")
Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> writes:
> David Kastrup wrote:
>> I think we should generally have this transform the stuff properly,
>> independent of platform.
>>
> The problem is defining what "properly" means for remote file:
> urls. On Windows, the system calls handle remote files using UNC
> paths, generally via the smb protocol, but on GNU and Unix systems,
> there are a number of possible protocols (smb, nfs, afs, ftp...) which
> all require external utilities, and it is not clear which is the right
> choice. I imagine this is why Nautilus and Konqueror avoid using
> remote file: urls, and instead use protocol specific urls for remote
> files.
>
>> Can't we just generally use the same mechanism as for `browse-url' for
>> files dropped into Emacs?
>>
> Browse URL just launches a WWW browser to deal with URLs (except for
> a few specific types like mailto: which are handled internally in
> Emacs). I don't think the user expects a file to be opened in their
> WWW browser when the drag it onto Emacs.
Then perhaps browse-url should be made to handle more types and
protocols. I'd prefer it if browse-url used Emacs whenever possible,
like for ftp and ssh connections.
That sounds like an approach more useful to everybody than a
Windows-specific solution.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-06 11:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-27 22:22 Patch for remote files in dnd.el Jason Rumney
2006-07-28 7:25 ` Mathias Dahl
2006-07-28 12:37 ` Jason Rumney
2006-08-01 12:10 ` Mathias Dahl
2006-07-28 10:44 ` Jan Djärv
2006-07-28 11:32 ` Jason Rumney
2006-07-28 13:34 ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-28 19:04 ` Jason Rumney
2006-07-28 22:20 ` Jason Rumney
2006-07-29 17:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-08-01 4:58 ` Jan Djärv
2006-08-08 9:38 ` Jan Djärv
2006-07-29 2:59 ` Richard Stallman
2006-09-06 11:15 ` Jan Djärv
2006-09-06 11:31 ` David Kastrup
2006-09-06 11:48 ` Jason Rumney
2006-09-06 11:59 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2006-09-06 12:06 ` Jan Djärv
2006-09-06 13:03 ` Reiner Steib
2006-09-06 14:25 ` Michael Albinus
2006-09-07 6:54 ` Richard Stallman
2006-09-07 7:40 ` Michael Albinus
2006-09-06 14:13 ` Michael Albinus
2006-09-07 6:54 ` Richard Stallman
2006-09-07 7:31 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2006-09-07 8:12 ` Jason Rumney
2006-09-07 8:25 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2006-09-07 8:56 ` Jan Djärv
2006-09-07 15:50 ` Stuart D. Herring
2006-09-08 0:56 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2006-09-07 8:25 ` Jan Djärv
[not found] ` <f7ccd24b0609070236r224ce34fobb9ceb0856a3ec39@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <44FFED66.2060806@swipnet.se>
2006-09-07 10:01 ` Jan Djärv
2006-09-07 14:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-09-07 8:32 ` David Kastrup
2006-09-07 8:49 ` Jason Rumney
2006-09-08 11:55 ` Richard Stallman
2006-09-08 12:43 ` Jason Rumney
2006-09-08 13:01 ` Jan Djärv
2006-09-08 16:45 ` Richard Stallman
2006-09-09 6:25 ` Jan Djärv
2006-09-08 11:55 ` Richard Stallman
2006-09-08 11:55 ` Richard Stallman
2006-09-07 23:47 ` KOBAYASHI Yasuhiro
2006-09-08 8:25 ` Jason Rumney
2006-09-08 9:09 ` YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
2006-09-15 7:11 ` Jan Djärv
2006-09-15 9:22 ` Jason Rumney
2006-09-15 9:29 ` Jan Djärv
2006-09-15 11:01 ` Jason Rumney
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