From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Politz Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: 'gzip -d' instead of 'gunzip' Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:10:52 +0200 Organization: FH-Trier Message-ID: <1224875802.590166@arno.fh-trier.de> References: <1224786847.134717@arno.fh-trier.de> <7sr667w1vw.fsf@one.net> <1224844314.854483@arno.fh-trier.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1224877299 1408 80.91.229.12 (24 Oct 2008 19:41:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:41:39 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 24 21:42:40 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1KtSYP-0004OO-Mc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 21:42:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51136 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KtSXG-0004Fo-J5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:41:26 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-kl.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 52 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 143-93-54-11.arno.fh-trier.de Original-X-Trace: news.uni-kl.de 1224875829 15348 143.93.54.11 (24 Oct 2008 19:17:09 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.uni-kl.de Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:17:09 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla-Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080724) In-Reply-To: Cache-Post-Path: arno.fh-trier.de!unknown@dslb-084-059-202-167.pools.arcor-ip.net X-Cache: nntpcache 3.0.1 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:163802 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:59140 Archived-At: Lave wrote: > On 10/24/08, Andreas Politz wrote: >> Chris McMahan wrote: >>> Andreas Politz 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