[REBOL] Re: pair-edit style - desktop url argument
From: carl:cybercraft at: 25-Jun-2002 10:16
On 24-Jun-02, Anton wrote:
>> One problem though is it still doesn't cater for the Reb-path, so
>> to speak. At the Desktop level, your...
>> http://www.lexicon.net/anton/rebol/gui/
>> could be described as this...
>> REBOL.com/sites/anton/gui/
> Oh I see.
>> and it'd be good if the Desktop could handle that. (It'd have to
>> drill down a page at a time to get there so it could find the real
>> URLs of course, but there'd be no need for it to waste time
>> displaying each page as it passed by.) A new protocol perhaps?
>> Maybe...
>>
>> reb://REBOL.com/sites/anton/gui/
>>
>> Any other suggestions for how it could be handled?
>>
>> --
>> Carl Read
> It's gonna be slow. The index file fo every part of the
> path must be read to determine the next piece.
Yes, but it should be faster than clicking through by hand.
> reb://REBOL.com/sites/anton/gui/
> But it should be easy to work this into the desktop patch,
> using just a lit-path for now instead of a new pseudo-protocol.
Hmmm. I'm sure it's possible, but how would you grab all the path at
the console...
>> x: func [n][probe n]
>> x /a-path/blah
/a-path
== /blah
?
--
Carl Read
