problem with txt.gz files in emacs

problem with txt.gz files in emacs

[Vinay Adella]

hi everybody there,
	I tried to open a txt.gz file in vi, it unzipped itself and opened 
the txt file. But when i did the same in emacs its showing some junk
characters. Why isn't emacs doing that? Is the option disabled because
emacs opens tar files which vi doesn't.
	could anybody help me out with this.
thanks
vinay

Re: problem with txt.gz files in emacs

[Thomas Link]

> 	I tried to open a txt.gz file in vi, it unzipped itself and opened 
> the txt file. But when i did the same in emacs its showing some junk
> characters. Why isn't emacs doing that? Is the option disabled because
> emacs opens tar files which vi doesn't.
> 	could anybody help me out with this.

I think crypt++ or crypt do the job. Try to put "(require 'crypt++)" or 
"(require 'crypt)" into your initialization file (~/.emacs or 
~/.xemacs/init.el). But maybe there are also other solutions?

Cheers,
Thomas.

RE: problem with txt.gz files in emacs

[Victor Kirk]

> I tried to open a txt.gz file in vi, it unzipped itself 
> and opened the txt file. But when i did the same in emacs
> its showing some junk characters. Why isn't emacs doing
> that?

M-x apropos auto-compression-mode

Regards,

Vic
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Re: problem with txt.gz files in emacs

[V. L. Simpson]

Thomas Link <samul@web.de> writes:

> > 	I tried to open a txt.gz file in vi, it unzipped itself and opened
> 
> I think crypt++ or crypt do the job. Try to put "(require 'crypt++)" or
> "(require 'crypt)" into your initialization file (~/.emacs or
> ~/.xemacs/init.el). But maybe there are also other solutions?

Turn on auto-compression-mode.

Have fun
vls