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From: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
To: emacs-org list <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Allow #+SETUPFILE to point to an URL for the org file
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2016 22:07:39 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFyQvY2ZCmpmCBfqNFdw2tG+w60H5MF+n+u-M3p4VpgCJ=KeWA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871sxigkhk.fsf@nicolasgoaziou.fr>

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On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 4:48 PM Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
wrote:

> Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com> writes:
>
> What about storing the contents of the file in a variable instead of
> cluttering the temp directory?
>

Hmm, is there a way to read a file from a URL to a variable directly? Or
did you mean to download the file first, read that into a temp buffer and
then delete the temp file?


>
> > - Now, the referenced SETUPFILE should be downloaded only if that (1)
> That
> > file is being fetched for the first time in that emacs session, or (2)
> that
> > temp file does not exist.
>
> And (3) it isn't local?
>

This proposal was for the case where we have

#+SETUPFILE: http://foo.bar/config.org

So it cannot be local to begin with.

With respect to the point about not having the file in temp, we can have a
flag that if set, will prevent re-downloading of the file. User can choose
to reset that flag and then re-download that file. This will be lieu of the
earlier condition "(2) that temp file does not exist."


>
> > - Add a defun to force reload the SETUPFILE from the referenced URL, in
> > which case the temp file will be deleted and re-downloaded (as the above
> > condition satisfied).
> >
> > So under the normal circumstance where that foo.org file buffer is
> reverted
> > multiple times in an emacs session, the same SETUPFILE downloaded to /tmp
> > will be used. If the user updated the file at the referenced URL, they
> can
> > do the above mentioned forced reload of SETUPFILE and download the latest
> > version of SETUPFILE.
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
> It could work. Do you want to provide an implementation?
>

I would like to work on this. But I will be away from my computer for about
a month starting tomorrow. Will get back to this once I am back from my
vacation.

Thank you for the feedback.
-- 

Kaushal Modi

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-08 22:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-03 17:23 Allow #+SETUPFILE to point to an URL for the org file Kaushal Modi
2016-12-08 11:51 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-12-08 14:22   ` John Kitchin
2016-12-08 14:31   ` Nicolas Goaziou
2016-12-08 14:44     ` Kaushal Modi
2016-12-08 21:48       ` Nicolas Goaziou
2016-12-08 22:07         ` Kaushal Modi [this message]
2016-12-08 22:40           ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-03-13 17:37             ` Kaushal Modi
2017-03-30  7:43               ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-05-23 19:07                 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-05-25 10:13                   ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-05-25 10:18                     ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-05-25 11:43                     ` Kaushal Modi
2017-05-25 15:15                       ` Kaushal Modi
2017-05-26  7:47                         ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-05-26 20:24                           ` Kaushal Modi
2017-05-28  7:35                             ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-05-28 10:04                               ` Kaushal Modi
2017-06-09 16:59                               ` Kaushal Modi
2017-06-12 19:32                                 ` Kaushal Modi
2017-06-13 12:43                                   ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-06-13 15:45                                     ` Kaushal Modi
2017-06-13 21:32                                       ` Nicolas Goaziou
2017-06-13 21:42                                         ` Kaushal Modi

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