Re: 'gzip -d' instead of 'gunzip'

[Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de>]

Lave wrote:

> On 10/24/08, Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de> wrote:
>> Chris McMahan wrote:
>>> Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de> writes:
>>>
>>>> Leo wrote:
>>>>> Hi there,
>>>>>
>>>>> How to tell emacs to use 'gzip -d' instead of 'gunzip' whenever
>>>>> un-compressing in dired etc.? Thank you.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>> (customize-option (quote jka-compr-compression-info-list))
>>>>
>>>> In my emacs it does use 'gzip -d'.
>>>>
>>>> -ap
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> On a similar topic, is there a way to force quotes around the filename?
>>> My emacs always chokes on compressed files with spaces in their names.
>>>
>>> - Chris
>>>
>> I think I was wrong. Compression in this case seems to be controlled by the
>> variable
>> `dired-compress-file-suffixes'. This topic is confusing me.
>>
>> -ap
>>
> 
> 
 > I used dired-compress-file-suffixes before. But this variable is
 > created after once compressing or uncompressing. If I add it in
 > .emacs, it will get an error when start emacs.
 >
 > How can I do except add it into dired-aux.el as I did before?
 >
 > Could anyone help?
 >

I think you should either

(require 'dired-aux)

before you access the variable (maybe in a dired-mode-hook)
or you

(eval-after-load "dired-aux" ... )

-ap