From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Tromey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Remote .emacs Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:59:34 -0600 Message-ID: References: <87skxykxdt.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: tromey@redhat.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207587840 3150 80.91.229.12 (7 Apr 2008 17:04:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 17:04:00 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 07 19:04:33 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 1Jiulk-0006Lq-LB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:04:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jiul7-0000gl-Fv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:03:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JiuhH-0003sC-Mo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:59:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JiuhG-0003rE-LL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:59:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JiuhG-0003qr-BC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:59:54 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JiuhF-00053n-Oo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:59:54 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Jiuh9-0001Ns-KP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:59:47 +0000 Original-Received: from 207.189.197.153 ([207.189.197.153]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:59:47 +0000 Original-Received: from tromey by 207.189.197.153 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:59:47 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.189.197.153 X-Attribution: Tom User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:uMmyiTiCCMIr0Tw+UJbay6tDi3o= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:53140 Archived-At: >>>>> "Niels" == Niels Giesen writes: Niels> Does lead me to wonder: how can we check for an internet Niels> connection without actually making a (failing) request? I don't think there is a way. I don't know of it anyhow. On some systems you could get away with using the new dbus code to contact NetworkManager and see if there is a connection. I'm not sure how to do this :-). And, while this would work great for me, it definitely wouldn't work for most users, I think. Tom