Subject: bug#60896: closed (Re: bug#60896: make error if not in 7z format)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Sun, 03 Sep 2023 09:43:02 +0000

Your bug report

#60896: make error if not in 7z format

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#60896: make error if not in 7z format
From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
To: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], Dan Jacobson <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2023 02:42:34 -0700
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

tags 60896
close 60896
thanks

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> From: Dan Jacobson <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked]
>> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2023 15:13:48 +0800
>>
>> Also maybe some message should be printed if no .gz or .7z handler is
>> found. Same for the rest: .jpg etc.
>>
>> Currently emacs just opens the file in fundamental mode.
>>
>> Emacs should print a message that it looked for a handler but didn't
>> find one.
>
> Sorry, no.  That way lies madness: most of the files Emacs users visit
> have no handlers.  Announcing we didn't find a handler will be a
> terrible annoyance.

Having read this bug report, I see no bug in Emacs.  We print the
message from the external archiver, as we should, and suggestions for
other changes were rejected.

I'm therefore closing this bug report.

Subject: dired-view-file vs. .7z
From: Dan Jacobson <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2023 08:52:06 +0800
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

dired-view-file knows how to deal with .gz,
but not .7z.

$ apropos 7z
7z (1)               - A file archiver with high compression ratio format
7za (1)              - A file archiver with high compression ratio format
7zr (1)              - A file archiver with high compression ratio format
p7zip (1)            - Wrapper on 7-Zip file archiver with high compression ratio