Re: Patch for remote files in dnd.el

[Jan Djärv]

David Kastrup skrev:
> Jan Djärv <address@hidden> 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.

Actually I take some of that back.  You can browse ftp:// and nfs:// in 
nautilus, it wasn't in the documentation.

> I think we should generally have this transform the stuff properly,
> independent of platform.

I am not sure that would work for w32.  For Samba shares, the URL becomes 
smb://host/... But in W32, I think it is in the UNC-format (\\host\...).  The 
UNC format just works on those machines, but the smb:// URL:s are not 
supported by tramp on W32.

> Can't we just generally use the same mechanism as for `browse-url' for
> files dropped into Emacs?

If dnd-protocol-alist does not match the URL and if 
browse-url-browser-function is a list of handlers, then those handlers are tried.

We could also enable url-handler-mode and match against url-handler-regexp. 
If that matches, a normal find-file should work.

        Jan D.