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1;;; uncompress.el --- auto-decompression hook for visiting .Z files
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3;; Copyright (C) 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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5;; Maintainer: FSF
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7;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
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9;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
10;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
e5167999 11;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
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12;; any later version.
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14;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
15;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
16;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
17;; GNU General Public License for more details.
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19;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
20;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
21;; the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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23;;; Code:
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25;; When we are about to make a backup file,
26;; uncompress the file we visited
27;; so that making the backup can work properly.
28;; This is used as a write-file-hook.
29
30(defun uncompress-backup-file ()
31 (and buffer-file-name make-backup-files (not buffer-backed-up)
32 (not (file-exists-p buffer-file-name))
33 (call-process "uncompress" nil nil nil buffer-file-name))
34 nil)
35
36(or (assoc "\\.Z$" auto-mode-alist)
37 (setq auto-mode-alist
38 (cons '("\\.Z$" . uncompress-while-visiting) auto-mode-alist)))
39
40(defun uncompress-while-visiting ()
41 "Temporary \"major mode\" used for .Z files, to uncompress the contents.
42It then selects a major mode from the uncompressed file name and contents."
43 (if (and (not (null buffer-file-name))
44 (string-match "\\.Z$" buffer-file-name))
45 (set-visited-file-name
46 (substring buffer-file-name 0 (match-beginning 0))))
47 (message "Uncompressing...")
48 (let ((buffer-read-only nil))
49 (shell-command-on-region (point-min) (point-max) "uncompress" t))
50 (message "Uncompressing...done")
51 (set-buffer-modified-p nil)
52 (make-local-variable 'write-file-hooks)
53 (or (memq 'uncompress-backup-file write-file-hooks)
54 (setq write-file-hooks (cons 'uncompress-backup-file write-file-hooks)))
55 (normal-mode))
56
57(or (memq 'find-compressed-version find-file-not-found-hooks)
58 (setq find-file-not-found-hooks
59 (cons 'find-compressed-version find-file-not-found-hooks)))
60
61(defun find-compressed-version ()
62 "Hook to read and uncompress the compressed version of a file."
63 ;; Just pretend we had visited the compressed file,
64 ;; and uncompress-while-visiting will do the rest.
65 (if (file-exists-p (concat buffer-file-name ".Z"))
66 (progn
67 (setq buffer-file-name (concat buffer-file-name ".Z"))
68 (insert-file-contents buffer-file-name t)
69 (goto-char (point-min))
70 (setq error nil)
71 t)))
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72
73;;; uncompress.el ends here