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From: pf@mips.csc.ti.com (Paul Fuqua)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Automatically uncompress files when finding them
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Date: 11 Nov 88 05:27:56 GMT
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In article <2166@bucsb.UUCP> jbw@bucsf.bu.edu (Joe Wells) writes:
    I suggest that everyone who is interested in having files automatically
    uncompressed by GNU Emacs should look in lisp/uncompress.el in the GNU
    Emacs distribution.

I use it, and I like it, but it has trouble with write-protected files:  the
buffer comes up read-only, and the uncompress barfs, leaving it empty.  The
obvious first choice, binding buffer-read-only to nil around the call to
shell-command-on-region, doesn't seem to fix the problem.

I'd love to hear from anyone with a solution;  uncompress.el is perfect for
me, since it doesn't actually modify any files.

                              pf

Paul Fuqua
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