From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: elisp way to deal with gziped content?
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 08:57:14 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mwbfmslh.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHa53uy1xUsb7W-kJ-VBoqk8YVhYD4M=bsvcU6_cdKktrmW-dA@mail.gmail.com>
> From: Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 22:21:20 -0400
>
> Someone has proposed a patch to vimgolf.el which replaces the use of
> url.el with requests.el. The reason is that url.el doesn't decompress
> gzipped content automatically while requests.el does.
>
> I'm assuming given that requests.el shells out to curl to get the job
> done that Emacs has no way of natively gunzipping content, but I'd
> love to be told that I'm wrong. I'd like Vimgolf to entirely rely on
> emacs builtins so that it works seamlessly for our Windows friends.
Emacs has recently acquired a way of decompressing stuff internally.
See the function zlib-decompress-region.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-08 5:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-08 2:21 elisp way to deal with gziped content? Tim Visher
2014-08-08 5:57 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-08-08 11:51 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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