Re: lisp/url/url-https.el

[Ted Zlatanov]

On 17 Apr 2004, address@hidden wrote:

>> How hard would it be to integrate the support with Tramp?  Does
>> Tramp have any facility to add more handlers without modifying its
>> source?  Since it comes with Emacs, I'd rather plug into Tramp.
> 
> Please check out the Emacs Lisp Manual to see how file-name-handlers
> work.  If you then look at the Tramp source, you'll quickly see that
> using Tramp in place of using file-name-handlers-alist directly is
> being masochistic.

My problem is that I don't want to use file-name-handlers at all - I
think that they are icing on the cake, but not essential to what I
need.  I want to provide an API that others can use to provide a file
I/O layer.  I was hoping that Tramp would make this easier, but it
apparently doesn't, so I'll do the file-name-handlers eventually.
Right now my priority is to get the API working.  I hope that's OK
with everyone.

Ted