From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Skip Montanaro Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: ediff-{tar,zip}-files? Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2019 12:50:11 -0600 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1546973353 6367 195.159.176.226 (8 Jan 2019 18:49:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2019 18:49:13 +0000 (UTC) To: Help GNU Emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 08 19:49:09 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ggwR0-0001VY-7w for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2019 19:49:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43202 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ggwT6-0002Uo-Eo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2019 13:51:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:58233) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ggwSY-0002Tw-35 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2019 13:50:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ggwSX-0008VS-2s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2019 13:50:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-pl1-x62a.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::62a]:44549) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ggwSW-0008Nf-6C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2019 13:50:40 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-pl1-x62a.google.com with SMTP id e11so2303693plt.11 for ; Tue, 08 Jan 2019 10:50:38 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=qR4b2C4wx0A+4UPSGhmfb8P+B858iP0Co7/vIEmeuEQ=; b=pxgoI44tttEVYfrs7ilfJ4xgFLAmi1LRmMorYnDkl39bZ3/Eow194ZSwlXPysoRnJU 9bZc0w0iuTsrTGFp8iE8BE9CvWCNXNqiT2fsMtp9uzjr6tOeCxSad8cgnIogVCaH4PyP 2IDFbZLcg/LxmaYAXcxPaB8m9sV2DJjSZ/DOpym/IJsI8LnRzyTdyFQktrr8Qo/bYA7O z7MUAJNb1B/IIrZgzQwfBPblsENHNTlPKjFyEBP50xH6Y4monmAFbiSkJ8wgSgKHIqWl +dLWlCb2m/z6fKNFkOzQTw4EETiL8TVCa5jmgKRIFdm6yZ2IxwsSVxhmtdiW32AXCIcK 0jRQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:from:date:message-id:subject:to; bh=qR4b2C4wx0A+4UPSGhmfb8P+B858iP0Co7/vIEmeuEQ=; b=ZD7QNW41iVSNecMknJN6c7CoKh/sJxA+13rWV7G95F6Ctz4Du0hv+N8j/+13E/ViKi XKS2hH1knSmkKSHEsVtvF0dh9bAmT4IfKAedg+w/55x5ipqy0xgq+KjKaZs8sLl6PUwP OGdc4tZub7uVd5NeBDQO88Ziv7mGFG+sSoy326iaqlLja9xmY0ljflhSIEL1n/KyGLPi 878oRRYyMgFqI/s7KO/6AWzYcLUn4yHqujHhTC+me4VQwd7xW2aplQSTu0gF5stqGBU9 k5i/aapLzawY8Ap182r5De4Jh4sIWLQopUHjXsMvCeBM4blgeSV5fQDzkRRz1U9pkqtv LnrA== X-Gm-Message-State: AJcUukcPvYgvRH91Uj9NWRSOd7ZMTNUFtnaF6oWE3+a6vgIFDMr0XYRD viERmMCMMx+QYc6I2pg3/FhrCLqDLcm7U2Hnm5HCGVl6Og== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ALg8bN4olMLMCZ90VGlKCbnBAB0tL+QMcAiainvxuy1oGQdBnsiKMIH1MNeDr2liKIBvq9WPtVmTm5xrQ0SXm5L0bUM= X-Received: by 2002:a17:902:6bc9:: with SMTP id m9mr2859118plt.173.1546973437613; Tue, 08 Jan 2019 10:50:37 -0800 (PST) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4864:20::62a X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:119091 Archived-At: 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. I can't be the only person who has ever needed this. In fact, outside of Emacs, I've written a couple versions of "tar diff" in the past (expand both archives into tmp dirs, run ediff -ru | less on them, remove on exit). While that's workable, the ediff interface would be so much nicer than just picking through diff -u output manually. Thx, Skip