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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, user42@zip.com.au, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: arc-lzh-exe.el -- archive-mode on lzh self-extracting exes
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 14:25:10 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1HfKGk-0001rW-NN@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uirbqgj9e.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 21 Apr 2007 12:38:05 +0300)

    > If that change is to simply recognize a new kind of archive, why delay
    > it?

    Because .exe files are much more widespread than LZH archive in .exe
    disguise.  So the change in point might adversely affect many files.

Indeed, nost files named .exe are not LZH archives.
It would not be right at all to treat them as LZH archives.

I see only two ways to handle the .exe LZH archives:

1. Detect them automatically (probably complex).

2. Have users say explicitly when they want to treat a .exe file
that way.

#2 is probably best.  Does that currently work?
Does it work to visit the .exe file normally and then
do M-x archive-mode?

If so, this isalready exactly as it should be.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-21 18:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <87zm5etm0r.fsf@zip.com.au>
     [not found] ` <E1HcAoA-0001sC-G4@fencepost.gnu.org>
     [not found]   ` <87tzvitz4z.fsf@zip.com.au>
2007-04-19  1:41     ` arc-lzh-exe.el -- archive-mode on lzh self-extracting exes Kevin Ryde
2007-04-19  2:01       ` Kevin Ryde
2007-04-19 23:17       ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-19 23:58         ` Chong Yidong
2007-04-20  1:05           ` Stefan Monnier
2007-04-20  1:42           ` Kevin Ryde
2007-04-20 10:40             ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-20 21:53           ` Richard Stallman
2007-04-20 22:44             ` Chong Yidong
2007-04-21  9:38             ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-21 18:25               ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2007-04-21 19:22                 ` Chong Yidong
2007-04-22 23:46                 ` Kevin Ryde
2007-04-23 14:25                   ` Chong Yidong
2007-04-20 10:37         ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-04-20 10:44           ` David Kastrup

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