From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: more url-utils? Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 10:15:39 -0300 Message-ID: References: <8739khju46.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1305551755 486 80.91.229.12 (16 May 2011 13:15:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 13:15:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 16 15:15:51 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QLxeH-0002o0-E9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 May 2011 15:15:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52866 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QLxeG-0006iO-RZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 May 2011 09:15:48 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:40901) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QLxeE-0006iH-0p for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 May 2011 09:15:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QLxeA-0001hS-3d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 May 2011 09:15:45 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:43301) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QLxeA-0001hO-0o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 16 May 2011 09:15:42 -0400 Original-Received: from 213-159-126-200.fibertel.com.ar ([200.126.159.213]:44490 helo=ceviche.home) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QLxe9-0004zw-Az; Mon, 16 May 2011 09:15:41 -0400 Original-Received: by ceviche.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 26BBC66140; Mon, 16 May 2011 10:15:39 -0300 (ART) In-Reply-To: <8739khju46.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Sat, 14 May 2011 08:21:13 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:139423 Archived-At: j> Would the defun below be suitable to include in url-util? j> You nearly always want to work with the data part of the document. j> The code snippet below occurs a lot in different packages. j> A wrapper that downloads a file(like curl or wget) would be nice also. j> (defun org-feed-skip-http-headers (buffer) > ... > Yes to both, but like Lars I think the header-skipping should be an > option for the current API and not a new function. While Emacs uses them a lot, dynamically-scoped variables used as implicit extra parameters are bad. In many cases, it's difficult to avoid using them, but in this case, calling a function after the url-retrieve call works just as well, so there's no excuse. Stefan