From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wg0-x22d.google.com (mail-wg0-x22d.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c00::22d]) by hurricane.the-brannons.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ED2FB78E8D for ; Tue, 6 Jan 2015 13:31:56 -0800 (PST) Received: by mail-wg0-f45.google.com with SMTP id b13so78275wgh.18 for ; Tue, 06 Jan 2015 13:29:29 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=pFKl2c7SROO40Uj46S5nKLGKqacfP2nbGviM/70j3TI=; b=zeF4MNnWOVeIjfeg8pmVcPzDdkPJD5M/JcEH/n+lsyPpnQh9DBXZrrN7HLGPJKzOXE 7j8P2pMXOCDMk3mvck3W4H9Bgitn2zGOtlnXJ73mRoR3EaMtrtZWHtILW0cwvuKxOAf0 8xTQ/y5eAI3zseQjuFI6W2MJ5JDs/y4wsue71cVej0uExcQ2wLU/j5be8qw+HXSMIQSP SaXncRbplGT2jQefJJ7qzFtR/YZuMzUdKEOi2NhbUgIdp+218iMUOcUDG2toyIRBYpvW o0eZpGzaxwz9AbEQ3TEmtBW5W9AHH9E0+XhHb7R4mAUipDHpz4TRSTDdLOL+4LGnhPsY G73Q== X-Received: by 10.180.74.212 with SMTP id w20mr41559907wiv.22.1420579768981; Tue, 06 Jan 2015 13:29:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from toaster.adamthompson.me.uk (toaster.adamthompson.me.uk. [2001:8b0:1142:9042::2]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id l9sm15405463wic.21.2015.01.06.13.29.27 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 06 Jan 2015 13:29:28 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 21:29:26 +0000 From: Adam Thompson To: Karl Dahlke Message-ID: <20150106212926.GF31364@toaster.adamthompson.me.uk> References: <20150005211926.eklhad@comcast.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="z0eOaCaDLjvTGF2l" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150005211926.eklhad@comcast.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Cc: Edbrowse-dev@lists.the-brannons.com Subject: Re: [Edbrowse-dev] & X-BeenThere: edbrowse-dev@lists.the-brannons.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Edbrowse Development List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 21:31:57 -0000 --z0eOaCaDLjvTGF2l Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 09:19:26PM -0500, Karl Dahlke wrote: > A possible compromise for download of large files to disk is: >=20 > space pulls into memory like now. > default file name or entered file name downloads to disk > with progress dots in foreground. > file name with & at the end downloads in background, no dots, > for those who want it and for when it works. > Like the shell, command & > & by itself downloads default filename in background. I'm not sure about this. I've been thinking about the possibility of having= a different command to download in the background rather than a download prom= pt like we currently have. For example (I'm using 2 letter commands because I = think they're a bit clearer than capitalised versions of existing commands) something like: g - downloads the link normally into memory gd - downloads the link in the foreground to disk (optionally followed by a= filename) gb - same as gd but in the background This isn't perfect since it doesn't handle if you end up with a file when y= ou're not expecting it, but this shouldn't happen, and you can always hit ^= c and try again anyway. This way we avoid forking mid-download and all the weirdness involved in th= at. Any thoughts? Cheers, Adam. --z0eOaCaDLjvTGF2l Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUrFO2AAoJELZ22lNQBzHOBoIH/j7TSbokHQtaCBRMZ/KxW0Sg d7M1qd2gyri4OdKP2LaNkmFEtlxCTj5FUtTJR2JiJcd8xvtJ7RJ1fR5vqQFmASZY PKaTvGCjmrL0zVX5isAqo8bfgsJEhq1M/CKb1Jmw77x8eHqWsqnDoknyE5IY01du RNbFhVkQoR44ttuHXQEsvHrQcc/GaaOM208Gex2MQFESj5vcSwpd/i+SfPFAT8TD p8qFrnBWERs55gm0O76QrRrgm11auhpB69sUbC6NNKXyFGRMIod5xPYtVDpxpr16 lzvw8dFz6O1jX+hsTTJ6g5iu/oXYgkYirv3QCKaaVwN3s9uaRbj4EpiWMKO9f/o= =f/XV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --z0eOaCaDLjvTGF2l--