From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Jacobson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: make auto-compression-mode on by default Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 04:42:41 +0800 Message-ID: <87u0i4t8se.fsf@jidanni.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1123286710 12341 80.91.229.2 (6 Aug 2005 00:05:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 00:05:10 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 06 02:05:07 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E1CBC-00058M-DN for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Aug 2005 02:04:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E1C5t-0007FN-2F for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Aug 2005 19:59:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E1C5Y-0007AJ-Cw for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Aug 2005 19:58:56 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E1C5Q-00074l-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Aug 2005 19:58:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E1C5P-000742-Je for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Aug 2005 19:58:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [204.74.68.40] (helo=frodo.hserus.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1E1CDr-0002YO-7s for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Aug 2005 20:07:31 -0400 Original-Received: from tc218-187-23-127.dialup.dynamic.apol.com.tw ([218.187.23.127]:2554 helo=jidanni1) by frodo.hserus.net with esmtpsa (Cipher TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.52 #0) id 1E1C0d-000AIJ-Kl by authid with plain for ; Sat, 06 Aug 2005 05:23:52 +0530 Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:12657 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:12657 Just noticed that $ emacs somefile.gz doesn't gunzip the file for viewing or editing by default. Maybe it should be the default behaviour. Else one just looks at a jumble. That is, (auto-compression-mode) should be on by default, and off only if made so in .emacs. Revise the info page to mention this too then. Else maintainers of multiple machines won't be able to use vanilla emacs to read the tons of .gz files, without needing to also install a .emacs. I mean only one in 1000 users would have need to see raw .gz file guts.