From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bernardo Bacic Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Trouble getting archives to load as archives Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 12:23:33 +1000 Message-ID: <486EDB25.5060204@pobox.com> References: Reply-To: bernardo.bacic@pobox.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1215224775 769 80.91.229.12 (5 Jul 2008 02:26:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2008 02:26:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Davin Pearson Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 05 04:27:02 2008 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 1KExUL-0007vi-E3 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:27:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44829 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KExTU-00043P-94 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:26:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KExTB-00043H-HM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:25:49 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KExT9-00042t-ET for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:25:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56280 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KExT9-00042p-BK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:25:47 -0400 Original-Received: from a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:61436 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KExT9-0004t9-7K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jul 2008 22:25:47 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB1451D54E; Fri, 4 Jul 2008 22:25:42 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from PIV2.8 (202.7.251.96.dynamic.rev.aanet.com.au [202.7.251.96]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-quonix.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BBBD41D54D; Fri, 4 Jul 2008 22:25:33 -0400 (EDT) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080421) In-Reply-To: X-Pobox-Relay-ID: AA9A8488-4A39-11DD-B9AD-3113EBD4C077-14340206!a-sasl-quonix.pobox.com X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:55253 Archived-At: it was a dark and stormy night when Davin Pearson said, On 07/05/2008 11:32 AM: > On Jul 5, 9:57 am, Peter Dyballa wrote: >> ("\\.\\(arc\\|zip\\|lzh\\|lha\\|zoo\\|[jew]ar\\|xpi\\)\\'" . >> archive-mode) >> ("\\.\\(ARC\\|ZIP\\|LZH\\|LHA\\|ZOO\\|[JEW]AR\\|XPI\\)\\'" . >> archive-mode) > > Trouble is that this code doesn't work for TAR or GZ files which I am > trying to get online. > a few things may be worth checking: * what is the value of auto-mode-alist when you hit C-h v auto-mode-alist * does the *Messages* buffer (C-h e) show any errors when you open an archive file * are you really opening TAR/GZ files as opposed to tar/gz?