From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
Cc: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>,
David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>,
rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: TUTORIAL.gz
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:33:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4353FC90.7040903@student.lu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvvezwrmku.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
Stefan Monnier wrote:
>Because it's unlikely (how many people are going to disable
>auto-compression-mode, really? how many of those will run in an
>environment where the TUTORIAL files are compressed? how many of those
>will want to read the tutorial?), and even if it ever happens I don't think
>it'll be terrible. Rather than force auto-compression-mode ON temporarily,
>if you really insist on handling this case, just detect it and output
>a warning like "can't read it 'cause you foolishly disabled
>auto-compression-mode".
>
>
I think the warning is a good alternative. It would be very good if this
also could handle the case when there is no software available to handle
the compression (as might be the case on w32) in other situations (than
accessing tutorials etc).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-17 19:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-11 23:39 TUTORIAL.gz David Reitter
2005-10-13 20:11 ` TUTORIAL.gz Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-14 9:16 ` TUTORIAL.gz Werner LEMBERG
2005-10-14 10:07 ` TUTORIAL.gz David Kastrup
2005-10-14 10:51 ` TUTORIAL.gz Werner LEMBERG
2005-10-15 16:13 ` TUTORIAL.gz Richard M. Stallman
2005-10-16 14:52 ` TUTORIAL.gz David Reitter
2005-10-17 8:34 ` TUTORIAL.gz Juri Linkov
2005-10-17 14:46 ` TUTORIAL.gz Stefan Monnier
2005-10-17 16:03 ` TUTORIAL.gz David Reitter
2005-10-17 16:20 ` TUTORIAL.gz David Kastrup
2005-10-17 17:48 ` TUTORIAL.gz Stefan Monnier
2005-10-17 18:47 ` TUTORIAL.gz Lennart Borgman
2005-10-17 19:08 ` TUTORIAL.gz Stefan Monnier
2005-10-17 19:33 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2005-10-18 8:04 ` TUTORIAL.gz Juri Linkov
2005-10-17 14:59 ` TUTORIAL.gz Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-17 15:22 ` TUTORIAL.gz Romain Francoise
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-10-14 11:25 TUTORIAL.gz LENNART BORGMAN
2005-10-15 12:43 ` TUTORIAL.gz Eli Zaretskii
2005-10-15 19:19 ` TUTORIAL.gz David Kastrup
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