From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Patch for remote files in dnd.el Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 13:31:50 +0200 Message-ID: <85fyf5fcyh.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <44FEADBA.6080401@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1157542433 8932 80.91.229.2 (6 Sep 2006 11:33:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 11:33:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 06 13:33:51 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 1GKvex-0001nf-Pp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 13:33:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GKvex-0004pV-1C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 07:33:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GKvei-0004oX-Sm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 07:33:20 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GKveh-0004oD-Kq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 07:33:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GKveh-0004oA-GI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 07:33:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GKvep-0008WT-Vf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 07:33:28 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1GKveg-0004wF-Ms; Wed, 06 Sep 2006 07:33:18 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 3AD151C4D3A4; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 13:31:51 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Jan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dj=E4rv?= In-Reply-To: <44FEADBA.6080401@swipnet.se> (Jan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Dj=E4rv's?= message of "Wed, 06 Sep 2006 13:15:06 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:59438 Archived-At: Jan Dj=E4rv writes: > I think we should install this. On GNU/Linux neither Nautilus or > Konqueror (file browsers for Gnome and KDE) puts the host name in > files dropped. So there is basically no way a user can drop remote > files onto Emacs in GNU/Linux. On W32 this restors the old > behaviour of Emacs 21 AFAIK, so it is not a new feature. I think we should generally have this transform the stuff properly, independent of platform. Can't we just generally use the same mechanism as for `browse-url' for files dropped into Emacs? --=20 David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum