From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Subject: Re: visiting large zip file
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 10:23:49 +0200 (IST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1030204102005.25351B-100000@is> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5l7kch5pa2.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu>
On 3 Feb 2003, Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com> wrote:
> > Actually, the Emacs mode that supports operations on *.zip files
> > _does_ read the whole zip file into a buffer; hence the problem.
>
> But I think Kin's point still holds: Emacs does not *need* to read
> the file, since it uses external tools to extract/list/...
I'm guessing that whoever wrote arc-mode tried to avoid external tools as
much as they could, since some of the wide-spread tools are not free
software, and the free ones might not be installed. Also, IIRC arc-mode
allows you to edit the file's attributes in ways that might be
impossible with external tools.
Anyway, if someone wants to rewrite those parts of arc-mode to use
external tools, or perhaps fall back on that if the file's size is too
large for Emacs, I'm sure that would be a welcome addition.
> Contrary to tar-mode, for example.
tar-mode _could_ do the same (i.e. use the external `tar' program).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-04 8:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-01 0:38 visiting large zip file Kin Cho
2003-02-01 19:09 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-02-01 21:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1306.1044134470.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-02-03 15:59 ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
2003-02-04 8:23 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2003-02-07 2:36 ` Bijan Soleymani
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