GNU bug report logs - #18823
Built-in support for visiting compressed files

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 09:18:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 24.4

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Dani Moncayo <dmoncayo <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 18823 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18823: 24.4; Built-in support for visiting compressed files
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 11:37:08 +0200

retitle 18823 Built-in support for visiting compressed files
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> I don't think there's anything Windows-specific here: AFAIK Emacs
> requires 'gzip' for visiting compressed files on all supported
> systems, including Unix and GNU systems.  It's just that on Posix
> hosts the probability of 'gzip' being installed is much higher, though
> not 100% AFAIK.
>
> So I think the requested feature could be reworded as follows: enhance
> jka-compr to support internal decompression methods such as
> zlib-decompress-region.

Ok, I misunderstood you.  Thanks.

-- 
Dani Moncayo
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