Dropbox client for Emacs

One day, I suddenly found that, I have a Dropbox account!

And, there are many interesting docs on it, which I uploaded maybe many years ago. Now, I want to read/edit them, it's amazing.

A good dropbox client on Linux? I searched and no good choise.

So why not do the stuff in Emacs? Then I found this: https://github.com/pavpanchekha/dropbox.el

But sadly, it's not working well for me. So I re-write this as my personal solution :)

Features

• Simple and basic, good use experience (Aim)
• Use dired to manage files
• Use tramp-like style to view/edit files

Usage

Install, config and use:

1. Download dropbox.el and load it (with load or require)
2. The first time, you should generate the config file to provide auth info with M-x dropbox-gen-config (You can reuse the one generated by dropbox_uploader.sh, it's compatible)
3. Then use M-x dropbox-find to search and pick file, or use C-x C-f /db:[PATH-on-DROPBOX] to open
4. Use M-x dropbox-browser to view current dropbox directory in browser, interactively

Some operations in dired:

• D: delete file/directory
• C: from remote to remote is copy, from remote to local is download, from local to remote is upload
• R: like C but for rename/move
• C: directory from remote to local and named as *.zip, will be compressed and downloaded
• +: make directory
• C-x C-f path-not-exist.txt: create new file (when save)

Learned from this development

• Generic function is flexible, I like it.
• Very clever for Emacs to use file-name-handler-alist do the dispatching operation.
• url-retrieve is both demon and angel, however I've mastered it.
• Coding system is another troublesome thing, but not so hard.

Thank you all to teach me a lot:

• https://github.com/pavpanchekha/dropbox.el
• https://github.com/andreafabrizi/Dropbox-Uploader
• https://www.dropbox.com/developers/documentation/http/documentation

Anything else?

For me, it's enough. Yet, issues and PRs are welcome.

Enjoy.