From: Douglas Lewan <d.lewan2000@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ediff-{tar,zip}-files?
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2019 14:51:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c10b829d-8c79-52c7-aaf4-46ea459e0545@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANc-5UyeEWe1dLjgX3cJaTp-Zz5sFp2yobyLPf27aYmOUMh7xw@mail.gmail.com>
On 01/08/2019 01:50 PM, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> 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
Treating cpio archives like file systems is one goal of mine. Granted,
my idea is much simpler, but if I can find a solution, I would bet a
similar model would work for other archive modes.Unifying them would be
a much larger issue.
> I can't be the only person who has ever needed this. In fact, outside
> of Emacs,
--
,Doug
Douglas Lewan
+1 (908) 720-7908
Give me "assloads of config" over "some other person thought they could decide what I like" any day. - Szmo, on reddit, 2017 Sep 05
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-08 19:51 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 ` Douglas Lewan [this message]
2019-01-08 20:13 ` ediff-{tar,zip}-files? Michael Albinus
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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