From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: TUTORIAL.gz Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:33:36 +0200 Message-ID: <4353FC90.7040903@student.lu.se> References: <5144DE50-461F-4BB0-BF1B-1F3769AFB084@gmail.com> <7DD3FE7A-06BE-4D1C-9B2F-0B3B976FF11D@gmail.com> <877jcch4hg.fsf@jurta.org> <4715FA60-84CE-4FCE-9F68-644D8C63AE73@gmail.com> <4353F1D7.6020101@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1129577877 4241 80.91.229.2 (17 Oct 2005 19:37:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 19:37:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , David Reitter , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 17 21:37:55 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ERalL-0003Mr-Ku for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:35:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ERalK-0000yp-Ca for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:35:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ERakE-0000nQ-7A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:34:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ERakA-0000mq-H4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:34:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ERakA-0000mn-BC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:33:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.8.164] (helo=pne-smtpout2-sn2.hy.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1ERak6-0007e4-3C; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 15:33:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.204.195) by pne-smtpout2-sn2.hy.skanova.net (7.2.060.1) id 434E6040000CF10C; Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:33:37 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Stefan Monnier In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:44207 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: >Because it's unlikely (how many people are going to disable >auto-compression-mode, really? how many of those will run in an >environment where the TUTORIAL files are compressed? how many of those >will want to read the tutorial?), and even if it ever happens I don't think >it'll be terrible. Rather than force auto-compression-mode ON temporarily, >if you really insist on handling this case, just detect it and output >a warning like "can't read it 'cause you foolishly disabled >auto-compression-mode". > > I think the warning is a good alternative. It would be very good if this also could handle the case when there is no software available to handle the compression (as might be the case on w32) in other situations (than accessing tutorials etc).