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From: Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 'gzip -d' instead of 'gunzip'
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:26:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1224844314.854483@arno.fh-trier.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7sr667w1vw.fsf@one.net>

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


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-24 10:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.1894.1224759751.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-23 17:39 ` 'gzip -d' instead of 'gunzip' Xah
2008-10-23 18:28 ` Andreas Politz
2008-10-23 19:24   ` Chris McMahan
2008-10-23 22:25     ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2008-10-24 10:26     ` Andreas Politz [this message]
2008-10-24 11:36       ` Lave
     [not found]       ` <mailman.1997.1224848218.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-24 19:10         ` Andreas Politz
2008-10-25  3:29           ` Lave
2008-10-30  8:45             ` Leo
2008-10-26 10:30           ` Giorgos Keramidas
2008-10-23 23:18   ` Lave
2008-10-30  8:47   ` Leo
2008-10-23 11:02 Leo

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