From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thierry Volpiatto Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Trouble getting archives to load as archives Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:38:25 +0200 Message-ID: <87hcb6b44u.fsf@tux.homenetwork> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1215150102 4467 80.91.229.12 (4 Jul 2008 05:41:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 05:41:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Davin Pearson Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 04 07:42:29 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KEe3t-0003il-U6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:42:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60720 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KEe32-0000Ud-Uw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:41:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KEe2S-0000SU-Gq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:40:56 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KEe2Q-0000QX-2n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:40:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=40668 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KEe2P-0000QH-RB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:40:53 -0400 Original-Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.198.249]:55752) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KEe2P-00064E-7e for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jul 2008 01:40:53 -0400 Original-Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id k29so1312871rvb.6 for ; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:40:49 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:cc:subject:references :date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=AOkasMYGc7tVguurRcTA1cgrK2TjUSUw2YeDhv1EocQ=; b=u8N6dQBW9Xtb0PP7qmJl/wq31Rfbn0jkHrmqaKKYi59fQhA48aucDx0O+hG6eXH+j6 OYYX0ho0aXagCwwF7SJrBzpHf1nERj66zsedZub+F49PF/q4Z8KcPoCaC7aWe+NMj60+ eRfTjNpGKsmT3CG4mhWEExkVkO9wQvtfKQYRM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=Avt8ctV3wYZDedfqW9+H5iHqYJBw10mWrksbgPHmszS1PEZJ7Gr0gIvzt7ivci70am JP/OcY93pF7pNKFj9jlrLCD0vuTR7wGPqE4EqYgfh4zqix3cC112HXcIqyUUPIjcWnVW 0zJmvP19ZvsXPPncBHkuQWq/aE+k/873j3xr0= Original-Received: by 10.114.66.2 with SMTP id o2mr2695207waa.124.1215150048290; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:40:48 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from tux.homenetwork ( [86.200.84.5]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b30sm1595913ika.3.2008.07.03.22.40.15 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:40:46 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Davin Pearson's message of "Thu, 3 Jul 2008 15:59:09 -0700 (PDT)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:55239 Archived-At: Davin Pearson writes: > The following code works for Emacs Version 20.7 and 21.3 > to load archive files as archives: > > (setq auto-mode-alist > (cons '("\\.\\(arc\\|zip\\|lzh\\|zoo\\)\\'" . archive-mode) > auto-mode-alist)) > > I tried the following code but it only works on ZIP files: > > (add-hook 'find-file-hooks 'my-archive-hook) > (defun my-archive-hook () > (when (or (string-match "\\.zip$" (buffer-name)) > (string-match "\\.tar$" (buffer-name)) > (string-match "\\.gz$" (buffer-name))) > (archive-mode 1) > )) > > So my question is this: how do I get archive-mode to display archives > correctly for TAR and GZ files? > Hi, an other solution is to use avfs, with that you can open any archives on read/write mode just as any directory in dired. So just install avfs and set fuse in your kernel (and install fuse) I use this code to use it in emacs: ,----[ avfs in dired ] | (defun tv-dired-browse-archive () | "This function use avfs and fuse, so be sure | to have these programs and modules installed on your system" | (interactive) | (let ((file-at-point (dired-get-filename))) | (if (or (equal (file-name-extension file-at-point) "gz") | (equal (file-name-extension file-at-point) "bz2") | (equal (file-name-extension file-at-point) "zip")) | (progn | (when (not (cddr (directory-files "~/.avfs"))) | (shell-command "mountavfs")) | (find-file (concat "~/.avfs" file-at-point "#"))) | (find-file file-at-point)))) | (define-key dired-mode-map (kbd "z") 'tv-dired-browse-archive) `---- -- A + Thierry Volpiatto Location: Saint-Cyr-Sur-Mer - France