Subject: bug#13006: recognizing compressed files with arbitrary names

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 03:39:11 -0500

Glenn Morris wrote:

> +   (setq filename (file-name-sans-versions filename))

Applied for 24.2.91.

Leaving this open as a wishlist for:
a) detecting compressed files by magic bytes
b) explicit command to open a file using a given compression