On 12 Dec, 2010, at 12:20 am, John J. Foerch wrote:
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 10:15:09PM +0000, Philip Hudson wrote:
When I M-x save a link (or `s'), and the link points to file
`foo.el', I am prompted to save a file named `foo.html'. How come?
There's an open bug report: http://bugs.conkeror.org/issue126
Good to know, and it also gives an effective workaround in the report:
follow the link and then save 0.
<architecture context snipped>
Conkeror is not
pre-fetching the file to check its mime-type. Without knowing the
mime-type, it raises the conflict, how do you know which extensions to
keep, and which to replace by ".html".
Naive first-thought solution: a user pref, expressed as a JS list of
extensions not to replace with "html". Default contents: just "el".
Second-thought solution: the inverse, a list of extensions always to
replace with "html". Default contents: the extensions you mentioned
("aspx" etc) plus other standards.
Third-thought: both the above, plus a third pref, a boolean, as to
which behavior to default to. Default setting: retain the link
extension.
Drawbacks: Too many prefs?
All the above presumes there's a good reason not to use a pre-fetch
HTTP HEAD request to determine the MIME type.
<snip>
I'm quite certain there is room for
improvement, but I believe the final solution won't sacrifice our
nicely
designed modularity just for the sake of a little DWYM sugar.
Agreed.
Thanks for the enlightenment, John. It is just so great as a user to
get a detailed and clear response so quickly.
--
Phil Hudson PGP/GnuPG ID: 0x887DCA63
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