From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: joakim@verona.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: remember(-diary).el
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 05:56:18 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ve7s3clp.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1IvQGS-0007Ks-Ex@fencepost.gnu.org>
Richard Stallman writes:
> Would it be possible for emacs to read its files from some kind of
> archive? That way the issue of different filesystems having
> substandard support for long filenames wouldnt come up.
>
> I don't want to bother with new features to support semi-obsolete
> systems. Renaming files is less work.
While there's probably no hurry to implement the feature for Emacs,
the idea of reading files from archives rather than on-disk file
systems has many applications.
For example, Python and Java have the concept of "eggs" and "jar
files" respectively, which simplify the distribution of 3rd-party
libraries, both by removing the distinction between the distribution
medium and the installed package and by making the directory listing
of the installed packages cleaner. These are basically just zip
archives. Also, most free software OSes today provide file systems
which allow mounting archives as file systems, as well as more
primitive loopback file systems that emulate an on-disk file system's
layout in a file.
The advantage of implementing at the application level is that
directory access doesn't require a system call.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-23 20:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-11-21 7:24 remember(-diary).el martin rudalics
2007-11-21 7:32 ` remember(-diary).el Miles Bader
2007-11-21 8:39 ` remember(-diary).el Glenn Morris
2007-11-21 18:49 ` remember(-diary).el Eli Zaretskii
2007-11-21 23:57 ` remember(-diary).el John Wiegley
2007-11-21 8:44 ` remember(-diary).el martin rudalics
2007-11-21 13:55 ` remember(-diary).el Miles Bader
2007-11-21 17:06 ` remember(-diary).el martin rudalics
2007-11-21 18:50 ` remember(-diary).el Eli Zaretskii
2007-11-22 2:13 ` remember(-diary).el Miles Bader
2007-11-22 4:18 ` remember(-diary).el Eli Zaretskii
2007-11-22 8:57 ` remember(-diary).el martin rudalics
2007-11-22 9:44 ` remember(-diary).el joakim
2007-11-23 4:35 ` remember(-diary).el Richard Stallman
2007-11-23 20:56 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2007-11-23 21:46 ` remember(-diary).el David Kastrup
2007-11-22 10:41 ` remember(-diary).el Leo
2007-11-22 23:57 ` remember(-diary).el Juri Linkov
2007-11-23 0:10 ` remember(-diary).el Leo
2007-11-30 6:17 ` remember(-diary).el Michael Olson
2007-11-30 8:27 ` remember(-diary).el Leo
2007-11-30 12:40 ` remember(-diary).el Michael Olson
2007-11-22 2:27 ` remember(-diary).el Richard Stallman
2007-11-30 6:22 ` remember(-diary).el Michael Olson
2007-11-30 16:48 ` remember(-diary).el Richard Stallman
2007-11-30 18:42 ` remember(-diary).el Michael Olson
2007-11-30 19:06 ` remember(-diary).el Glenn Morris
2007-11-30 22:11 ` remember(-diary).el Michael Olson
2007-11-30 22:22 ` remember(-diary).el Leo
2007-12-01 9:07 ` remember(-diary).el Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-01 9:56 ` remember(-diary).el David Kastrup
2007-12-01 9:06 ` remember(-diary).el Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-02 21:33 ` remember(-diary).el Michael Olson
2007-12-03 4:18 ` remember(-diary).el Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-03 15:13 ` remember(-diary).el Michael Olson
2007-12-03 15:44 ` remember(-diary).el Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-12-03 1:05 ` remember(-diary).el Michael Olson
2007-12-03 4:22 ` remember(-diary).el Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-03 14:40 ` remember(-diary).el Stefan Monnier
2007-12-03 20:51 ` remember(-diary).el Eli Zaretskii
2007-12-01 17:59 ` remember(-diary).el Richard Stallman
2007-11-30 20:57 ` remember(-diary).el Eli Zaretskii
2007-11-30 22:07 ` remember(-diary).el Michael Olson
2007-12-05 1:22 ` remember(-diary).el Michael Olson
2007-12-05 4:46 ` remember(-diary).el Eli Zaretskii
2007-11-21 18:24 ` remember(-diary).el Sven Joachim
2007-11-21 18:54 ` remember(-diary).el Eli Zaretskii
2007-11-22 13:32 ` remember(-diary).el martin rudalics
2007-11-22 23:57 ` remember(-diary).el Juri Linkov
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