From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org, tramp-devel@gnu.org
Subject: File name handler for archive files
Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2017 15:40:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87efo46k2i.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
Hi,
it has been requested from time to time in the Emacs ML, so I gave it a
try. With commit d338325c2b to the Emacs master repository, I've
implemented file name handlers for archive files.
Given you have a file /path/to/archive.tar, you can open this now via
"C-x C-f /path/to/archive.tar/" in dired mode, seeing all contained
files. Note the trailing slash. Opening "C-x C-f
/path/to/archive.tar/file" opens a file in that archive.
Since the implementation uses Tramp's archive method of tramp-gvfs.el,
this works only on machines which run GVFS. Roughly spoken, on GNU/Linux
machines.
It doesn't work for tar archives only, but also for many other archive
formats. And for compressed archives. And for archives located an a
remote host. And for archives inside archives.
Read (info "(tramp) Archive file names") for the details. As usual,
feedback much appreciated!
Best regards, Michael.
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2017-12-09 14:40 Michael Albinus [this message]
2017-12-09 15:37 ` File name handler for archive files Eli Zaretskii
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