Re: find-file-maybe-uncompress? (for Gnu under unix)

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From: Jim Patterson
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1993 20:53

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schrag@cs.utexas.edu (Robert C. Schrag) writes:
: Does anybody have a version of find-file (or find-file-noselect) that
: will automatically uncompress the file, if it has the .Z suffix?

Check your local Emacs lisp archive for a module called "zcat.el".
This contains a routine called zcat-buffer that is installed as a
minor mode (it doesn't actually replace find-file). It's installed like
this at our site:

	(autoload 'zcat-buffer "site/zcat"
	  "Uncompresses contents of buffer,
       respecting read-only status (not loaded)."
	  t)

	(setq auto-mode-alist
		  (append auto-mode-alist '(
			  ("\\.Z$" . zcat-buffer)
		   )))

Once this is done during setup, zcat-buffer will automatically be
invoked on any file with a .Z extension (quite neat).  We've put it
into our site-init.el file.

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