'gzip -d' instead of 'gunzip'

'gzip -d' instead of 'gunzip'

[Leo]

Hi there,

How to tell emacs to use 'gzip -d' instead of 'gunzip' whenever
un-compressing in dired etc.? Thank you.

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

[Xah]

On Oct 23, 4:02 am, Leo <sdl....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> How to tell emacs to use 'gzip -d' instead of 'gunzip' whenever
> un-compressing in dired etc.? Thank you.

i'm not sure there's a user-level way. I've been wanting to make it to
use ditto (which creates zip) on OSX. I suppose on the Windows
platform, people may want to make it zip.

btw, i thought “gzip -d” and “gunzip” makes no difference in their
result?

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

[Andreas Politz]

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

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

[Chris McMahan]

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

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

[Nikolaj Schumacher]

Chris McMahan <cmcmahan@one.net> wrote:

> 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.

That sounds like a bug...

regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher

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

[Andreas Politz]

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

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

[Lave]

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?

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
>


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Regards,
Lave

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

[Andreas Politz]

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

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

[Lave]

It doesn't work too.

The problem is: when dired-aux.el is loaded,
dired-compress-file-suffixes has not exist yet. I ever added the
unrar-stuff into that file. But isn't there a clearer solution ?

And, dired-compress-file-suffixes can't contain args. I have to create
another script storing 'unrar x'.

I want to find a alternative solution.


On 10/25/08, Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de> wrote:
> 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
>


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Regards,
Lave

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

[Leo]

On 2008-10-25 04:29 +0100, Lave wrote:
> It doesn't work too.
>
> The problem is: when dired-aux.el is loaded,
> dired-compress-file-suffixes has not exist yet. I ever added the
> unrar-stuff into that file. But isn't there a clearer solution ?
>
> And, dired-compress-file-suffixes can't contain args. I have to create
> another script storing 'unrar x'.
>
> I want to find a alternative solution.

I would also like to know the solution. Thanks.

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

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:10:52 +0200, Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de> wrote:
>Lave wrote:
>> 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" ... )

Yep.  The `eval-after-load' option is slightly nicer if you are in the
habit of spawning several Emacs instances (like me), because it does not
delay the startup of *all* Emacs runs to load something that you may not
use for some time :)

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

[Lave]

Ask too.

On 10/24/08, Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de> wrote:
> 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))
>
I add this following into my .emacs, but it doesn't work.
(setq jka-compr-compression-info-list
      (cons
       '["\\.rar\\(~\\|\\.~[0-9]+~\\)?\\'" nil nil nil
	 "unraring" "unrar" ("x") nil t "Rar!"]
       jka-compr-compression-info-list))

> In my emacs it does use 'gzip -d'.
>
> -ap
>
Please help.

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Regards,
Lave

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

[Leo]

On 2008-10-23 19:28 +0100, Andreas Politz wrote:
> (customize-option (quote jka-compr-compression-info-list))
>
> In my emacs it does use 'gzip -d'.

It looks like jka-compr-compression-info-list is not used when 'Z' or
'!' on a tar.gz file. Another variable is used instead, which is
`dired-compress-file-suffixes'. But unfortunately no arguments can be
passed.

Cheers,
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