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Re: enhancement to M-x telnet
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Mario Lang |
Subject: |
Re: enhancement to M-x telnet |
Date: |
Fri, 16 Apr 2004 11:01:44 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
> I frequently use telnet to check connections to other hosts, and as such I
> need to specify an alternative port number to connect to.
>
> The following patch allows you to append the port number to the hostname,
> e.g.
> M-x telnet RET gnu.org:80 RET
Have you thought about the implication of IPv6 an this implementation?
I know that Emacs's process.c can actually handle IPv6 connections
already. What if a user wants to enter an IPv6 address.
Your current code will do something very wrong in this case I think.
> An alternative interface would be to specify the port number as a numeric
> prefix arg, but that seems rather obscure IMO.
What about something like
(interactive (list (read-string "Host: ")
(if current-prefix-arg
(read-string "Port: ")
"23")))
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