Re: (emacs+unix): How to have a file-name containing slashes, angle-brackets, etc?

[David Combs]

In article <mailman.16876.1218850883.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
The Badger  <badgy@example.com> wrote:
>Hello David,
>
>Just a thought: Trying to encode the path of the remote file into the 
>filename after downloading seems weird.  Why not just re-create the 
>folder structure?
>
>For example, if you download
>
>http://www.aaa.com/~john/foo-txt.htm
>
>then you would have the following file on your disk:
>
>/home/david/my web downloads/www.aaa.com/~john/foo.txt
>
>Isn't that what pretty much what `wget', or any other web downloader 
>tool would do?

Thanks for the suggestion

For some (many?) purposes, yes,  Like for downloading an entire
tree, of course.

But say I'm grabbing files about a given subject.  I google
the subject-name, and find some stuff here, some there,
some of them buried way down in some dir-structure --
and for this kind of thing, I want all of them that
I've checked out to be good stuff to be stuffed into
the same directory, like maybe

     myHistoryDoc/historyOfEmacs/

What then?

Thanks,

David