GNU bug report logs - #1702
feature request: correctly display single file zip archive

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: xah lee <xah <at> xahlee.org>

Date: Thu, 25 Dec 2008 18:40:04 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Matthew Leach <matthew <at> mattleach.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: xah <at> xahlee.org, 1702 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, cyd <at> stupidchicken.com
Subject: bug#1702: [PATCH]: feature request: correctly display single file zip	archive
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 20:03:32 +0000

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Matthew Leach <matthew <at> mattleach.net>
>> Cc: xah <at> xahlee.org,  1702 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  cyd <at> stupidchicken.com
>> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 19:26:13 +0000
>> 
>> I think the advantage gained here is transparent editing of compressed
>> files, like how Emacs can read .el.gz files without having to manually
>> decompress them first.
>
> This won't work without a suitable change to jka-compr.el.

Could you please elaborate on what kind of change would be needed?  From
the small amount of testing I've done so far, it seems to `just work (TM)'.
-- 
Matt
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