Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I switched from my formerly preferred iso-latin-1 language environment > to a utf-8 one, deb-view-dired-view suddenly stopped working. Now the > *.deb-DATA buffer is always empty on both emacs21 and emacs-snapshot. The > following log is left in the *Messages* buffer in emacs-snapshot: > > deb-view processing deb file debian-el_26.4-1_all.deb... > Parsing tar file...done > deb-view processing deb file debian-el_26.4-1_all.deb... > Parsing tar file... > Warning: premature EOF parsing tar file
As you can see above, deb-view is simply a superset of tar-mode. That is where the problem is occurring. I might be able to patch around it, but it is more than likely an Emacs bug. > File mode specification error: (end-of-buffer) > > If debug-on-error is enabled, that changes to > > deb-view processing deb file debian-el_26.4-1_all.deb... > Parsing tar file...done > deb-view processing deb file debian-el_26.4-1_all.deb... > Parsing tar file... > Warning: premature EOF parsing tar file > tar-mode: End of buffer > > The debugger is not invoked, though. :-( Widening the *.deb-DATA buffer > with "C-x n w" shows the message > > gzip: stdin: not in gzip format > > there. To reproduce this, start emacs -q, type > > M-x prefer-coding-system <RET> utf-8 <RET> > > and load some *.deb file in dired. I see that you are using: > ii emacs-snapshot [emac 1:20051215-1 The GNU Emacs editor > ii emacs21 [emacsen] 21.4a-3 The GNU Emacs editor Which one is falling? Both? I tested the above on stable (emacs21 21.4a-1) and it worked. I'll try at home on unstable. Peter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
