From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#10990: 24.0.94; Uncompressing files Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 05:52:15 +0200 Message-ID: <83boo2xyq8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83ipibxevk.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1331524405 12059 80.91.229.3 (12 Mar 2012 03:53:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 03:53:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 10990@debbugs.gnu.org To: Dani Moncayo Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 12 04:53:24 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1S6wK0-0000xW-CH for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 04:53:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36875 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S6wJz-0001D2-L5 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:53:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:35943) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S6wJw-0001Ci-Fu for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:53:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S6wJu-00078S-EK for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:53:16 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:38881) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S6wJu-00078L-AS for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:53:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1S6wmj-0008Nk-Ud for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:23:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2012 04:23:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 10990 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 10990-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B10990.133152612932162 (code B ref 10990); Mon, 12 Mar 2012 04:23:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 10990) by debbugs.gnu.org; 12 Mar 2012 04:22:09 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45713 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1S6wls-0008Mf-IV for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:22:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:46806) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1S6wlf-0008M2-T3 for 10990@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:22:07 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0M0R002006QJEE00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for 10990@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 05:52:06 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.124.179.236]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0M0R002YM6QTBT40@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Mon, 12 Mar 2012 05:52:05 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:57695 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 22:50:06 +0100 > From: Dani Moncayo > Cc: 10990@debbugs.gnu.org > > Well, it's obvious that there is no "gunzip" executable visible from > my environment. I knew that. And it is also obvious that I don't > need it. The problem is not that my system is lacking an > uncompression program (I have "gzip -d"), the problem is that Emacs > (a) doesn't know how to invoke it, and (b) doesn't let me tell it how. gzip and gunzip are parts of the same package. It is reasonable to assume that having one means you also have the other. But it sounds like you don't actually want to solve your problem, but rather make some point about big bad Emacs. Whatever. > > Visiting compressed files uses "gzip -d", so it doesn't need gunzip. > > See lisp/jka-cmpr-hook.el. > > Then, why doesn't Emacs use that same method whenever it needs to > uncompress a file? Because dired uses a different code which was written by a different person, I guess. That code needs a program name, not a shell command, so "gzip -d" will not do. > If Emacs was consistent in this regard and used "gzip -d" whenever it > need to uncompress a file, I would not have had any problem. I don't see why there should be a consistency in this case. > > I submit that your system is misconfigured > > ??? > I showed clearly that my system is capable of uncompressing files > compressed by Emacs. You have only half of a package installed.