bug#541: Trouble getting archive files to load

bug#541: Trouble getting archive files to load

[Davin Pearson]

Please write in English if possible, because the Emacs maintainers
usually do not have translators to read other languages for them.

Running Emacs with -Q and -q and executing the following code:

(add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist
'("\\.\\(arc\\|zip\\|tar\\|gz\\|lzh\\|zoo\\)\\'" . archive-mode))

gives the following error when I try to load a *.tar or *.tar.gz file:

File mode specification error: (error "Buffer format not recognized")

It works fine loading *.zip files however.

If Emacs crashed, and you have the Emacs process in the gdb debugger,
please include the output from the following gdb commands:
    `bt full' and `xbacktrace'.
If you would like to further debug the crash, please read the file
d:/Program Files/emacs-22.2/etc/DEBUG for instructions.


In GNU Emacs 22.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
 of 2008-03-27 on RELEASE
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.4)'

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: ENZ
  locale-coding-system: cp1252
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Dired by name

Minor modes in effect:
  encoded-kbd-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t

Recent input:
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> C-x
C-f <M-backspace> <M-backspace> <M-backspace> <M-backspace>
<M-backspace> <M-backspace> h o <tab> / . <backspace>
<backspace> / . <backspace> <backspace> . e m <tab>
<return> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down>
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down>
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down>
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down>
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <down>
<down> <down> <down> <down> <down> <up> <up> <up> <right>
<right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right> <right>
<right> <right> <right> <right> <end> <left> <left>
<left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left>
<left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <up> <left>
<left> <down> <left> <left> <left> C-k C-x u <escape>
<escape> <escape> <up> M-: C-y <return> C-d C-x C-f
b a <tab> <return> <return> C-x k <return> <down> <down>
<return> C-x k <return> M-x r e p r <tab> <backspace>
r <tab> <backspace> o r <tab> <return>

Recent messages:
Loading dired...
Loading regexp-opt...done
Loading dired...done
Loading arc-mode...done
File mode specification error: (error "Buffer format not recognized")
Loading jka-compr...done
uncompressing Carls-Latex-Stuff-20050828-233128.tar.gz...done
Note: file is write protected
File mode specification error: (error "Buffer format not recognized")
Loading emacsbug...done


-- 
Sincerely and kindest regards, Davin.
Davin Pearson http://www.davinpearson.com

bug#541: Trouble getting archive files to load

[Jason Rumney]

tags 541 wontfix
thanks

Davin Pearson wrote:

> Running Emacs with -Q and -q and executing the following code:
> 
> (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist
> '("\\.\\(arc\\|zip\\|tar\\|gz\\|lzh\\|zoo\\)\\'" . archive-mode))
> 
> gives the following error when I try to load a *.tar or *.tar.gz file:
> 
> File mode specification error: (error "Buffer format not recognized")

Archive mode is not supposed to handle those formats. gz is handled by
jka-compr, which is enabled by default, and tar is handled by tar-mode,
also enabled by default. archive-mode is enabled by default for .arc,
.zip, .lzh and .zoo files as well as other formats, so removing that
line from your .emacs should make things work as desired.

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bug#541: Trouble getting archive files to load

[Glenn Morris]

I don't see a need to keep open this particular report, which was marked
"wontfix" some time ago.