From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#18823: 24.4; Built-in support on MS-Windows for visiting compressed files Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 12:27:08 +0300 Message-ID: <83wq7o4hzn.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1414229313 4544 80.91.229.3 (25 Oct 2014 09:28:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 09:28:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 18823@debbugs.gnu.org To: Dani Moncayo Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 25 11:28:24 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xhxe1-0001Yh-8r for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2014 11:28:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52738 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xhxe0-0004Ub-OG for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2014 05:28:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40491) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xhxdq-0004UK-RF for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2014 05:28:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xhxdj-0003P6-C6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2014 05:28:10 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:42481) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xhxdj-0003OB-8t for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2014 05:28:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Xhxdi-00072n-6M for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2014 05:28:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 09:28:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 18823 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 18823-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B18823.141422925427039 (code B ref 18823); Sat, 25 Oct 2014 09:28:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 18823) by debbugs.gnu.org; 25 Oct 2014 09:27:34 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34579 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XhxdG-000722-3U for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2014 05:27:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:62471) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XhxdD-00071m-Bj for 18823@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2014 05:27:32 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NDZ00200TJK8500@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for 18823@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 25 Oct 2014 12:27:24 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NDZ0024WU9O8K10@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Sat, 25 Oct 2014 12:27:24 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:95064 > Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 11:17:11 +0200 > From: Dani Moncayo > > Currently, on MS-Windows, if gzip.exe is not available at run time, it > is not possible to visit .gz files. So, for example, it is not possible > to read any info manual from a binary distribution made with a plain > "make install". > > But it seems that limitation could be removed [1]. Hence this request > for having built-in support on MS-Windows for displaying compressed > files. I don't think there's anything Windows-specific here: AFAIK Emacs requires 'gzip' for visiting compressed files on all supported systems, including Unix and GNU systems. It's just that on Posix hosts the probability of 'gzip' being installed is much higher, though not 100% AFAIK. So I think the requested feature could be reworded as follows: enhance jka-compr to support internal decompression methods such as zlib-decompress-region.