From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: tar file-name-handler Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2018 17:35:49 +0200 Message-ID: <834lmzcskq.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1517590322 9749 195.159.176.226 (2 Feb 2018 16:52:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 16:52:02 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 02 17:51:57 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1eheYh-0000eD-MS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 17:51:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39689 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1eheai-0003VT-RJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 11:53:32 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:60368) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehdPC-0004qj-4a for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 10:38:40 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehdNm-0007uA-Vj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 10:37:13 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:47924) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ehdNm-0007tg-Gf; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 10:36:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3954 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ehdNl-0000u2-2Y; Fri, 02 Feb 2018 10:36:05 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Fri, 02 Feb 2018 09:04:04 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:222412 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2018 09:04:04 -0500 > > I remember an announcement recently that a file-name-handler was now > available for tar archives, and wanted to try it out, but can't seem to > find it. > > Did I dream it? Not a dream. From NEWS on master: ** Emacs can now visit files in archives as if they were directories. This feature uses Tramp and works only on systems which support GVFS, i.e. GNU/Linux, roughly spoken. See the chapter "(tramp) Archive file names" in the Tramp manual for full documentation of these facilities.