GNU bug report logs - #13006
recognizing compressed files with arbitrary names

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: karl <at> freefriends.org (Karl Berry)

Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 01:34:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 13006 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13006: recognizing compressed files with arbitrary names
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
This bug report was last modified 12 years and 200 days ago.

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