From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: odt file instant open
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:58:31 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y6cwamko.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C4E8B18.9080005@easy-emacs.de>
> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 09:30:32 +0200
> From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
>
> Am 26.07.2010 18:29, schrieb Olwe Melwasul:
> > I'm trying to grok the open document format, so I took the first wild
> > and crazy step of simply trying to open it in Emacs (23.2.1) -- and it
> > opened up to a "Zip-Archive Narrow" view of all the files contained
> > therein Poking around on the Internet, I found that Emacs
> > automatically unpacks a .odt file, which is nothing more than a zip
> > file. My question is this: How is Emacs doing this?
>
> by calling a shell-command resp. to the ending found.
No. For most archive types, arc-mode.el (and tar-mode.el) can list
the contents directly, just by reading the archive file itself.
Extracting the individual files in the archive sometimes needs to run
an external program.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-27 16:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-26 16:29 odt file instant open Olwe Melwasul
2010-07-27 7:30 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-07-27 10:33 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2010-07-27 16:58 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2010-07-27 17:34 ` Andreas Röhler
2010-07-28 13:10 ` Kevin Rodgers
2010-07-28 14:32 ` Andreas Röhler
[not found] ` <mailman.4.1280327317.17798.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-07-28 23:08 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.11.1280251781.6519.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-07-27 20:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-07-27 16:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-09-25 3:03 ` Jason White
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