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Re: visiting remote files on webserver
From: |
lee |
Subject: |
Re: visiting remote files on webserver |
Date: |
Mon, 18 Aug 2014 20:30:18 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
> lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> writes:
>
>> saint@eng.it writes:
>>
>>> lee writes:
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> > isn't something like the following already available by default:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > (defun my-curl-find-file ()
>>> > "Use curl to retrieve something and create a buffer to display what
>>> > was retrieved.
>>>
>>> What about:
>>>
>>> (find-file "/scp:user@machie:/path/to/file")
>>>
>>> it is possible to use it interactively
>>>
>>> C-x C-f /scp:user@machine:/path/to/file
>>
>> That requires to be able to log in to the remote host. In this
>> particular case, I wanted to get a script from some web server I don't
>> have any special access to. I could have downloaded and saved and
>> visited it, but why not load it directly into a buffer.
>
> The url package does this, you could start with url-retrieve and
> url-retrieve-synchronously.
Hm, yes, I thought it did, and there are a number of url-.* functions
available, like url-handler-mode. There aren't any to retrieve an url,
though.
Is the url package part of emacs, or do I need to install it?
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of 2014-08-17 on yun.yagibdah.de
- visiting remote files on webserver, lee, 2014/08/17
- Re: visiting remote files on webserver, saint, 2014/08/17
- Re: visiting remote files on webserver, lee, 2014/08/17
- Re: visiting remote files on webserver, Eric Abrahamsen, 2014/08/17
- Re: visiting remote files on webserver,
lee <=
- Re: visiting remote files on webserver, Eric Abrahamsen, 2014/08/18
- Re: visiting remote files on webserver, lee, 2014/08/21
- Re: visiting remote files on webserver, Eric Abrahamsen, 2014/08/21
- Re: visiting remote files on webserver, Stefan Monnier, 2014/08/21
- Re: visiting remote files on webserver, ken, 2014/08/22