Re: Help test EFS

Ben> mike, are there any plans to support URL-style syntax for EFS? It seems it Ben> would be trivial to allow a file of the form Ben> ftp://ben＠gwyn.tux.org/etc/mail/xemacs/ Ben> in place of Ben> /ben＠gwyn.tux.org:/etc/mail/xemacs/ Ben> that way, e.g. when we get an http:// processor, we can edit files [at the least Ben> in read-only mode] that way, too. This is exactly why EFS is not the right place to do this: it's very ftp-centric, and you want to be able to dispatch to the other protocols as well. In fact, W3 handles exactly the translation needed. All somebody'd have to do is hack up a file-name handler which recognizes URLs and hands them off to W3. So, I think Stephen's assessment is right on the button. My own medium-term planned work on XEmacs is on bugfixing, so it's not really on my list currently. -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla