From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com>
Cc: Help GNU Emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: ediff-{tar,zip}-files?
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2019 21:13:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877efehpqs.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANc-5UyeEWe1dLjgX3cJaTp-Zz5sFp2yobyLPf27aYmOUMh7xw@mail.gmail.com> (Skip Montanaro's message of "Tue, 8 Jan 2019 12:50:11 -0600")
Skip Montanaro <skip.montanaro@gmail.com> writes:
Hi Skip,
> Is there an add-on for ediff which allows it to treat archives like
> tarfiles or zip archives as if they were directories? I suspect Emacs
> has most of the groundwork already laid, as if you visit such a file
> it brings up a listing of said archive. Kind of smash that
> functionality together with ediff-directories? I checked the package
> manager, did some web searching, and poked around the EmacsWiki a bit,
> but found nothing obvious.
It is supported in Emacs 27.0.50 / Tramp 2.4.1. See
<https://www.gnu.org/software/tramp/#Archive-file-names>. It discusses
also an ediff example.
> Thx,
>
> Skip
Best regards, Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-08 20:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-08 18:50 ediff-{tar,zip}-files? Skip Montanaro
2019-01-08 19:51 ` ediff-{tar,zip}-files? Douglas Lewan
2019-01-08 20:13 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2019-01-08 21:01 ` ediff-{tar,zip}-files? Skip Montanaro
2019-01-09 8:04 ` ediff-{tar,zip}-files? Michael Albinus
2019-01-09 12:27 ` ediff-{tar,zip}-files? Skip Montanaro
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