David Reitter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 17 Oct 2005, at 15:46, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> >> Agreed. Except that let-binding auto-compression-mode doesn't do much >> if anything. Better just check whether auto-compression-mode is >> nil and if >> so don't try to load the .gz file. > > Seems like I got confused by instructions from jka-compr.el: > > ;; To use jka-compr, invoke the command `auto-compression-mode' (which > ;; see), or customize the variable of the same name. Its operation > ;; should be transparent to the user (except for messages appearing when > ;; a file is being compressed or uncompressed). > > The DOC strings are much clearer regarding this issue. > > Shouldn't we better enable auto-compression-mode temporarily if it is > switched off?
Maybe buffer-local is somehow workable? This would have the added advantage that if the user managed to edit and save the buffer, it would get recompressed even if global auto-compression-mode was off. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
