lisp/uncompress.el

   1 ;;; uncompress.el --- auto-decompression hook for visiting .Z files
   2
   3 ;; Copyright (C) 1992 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
   4
   5 ;; Maintainer: FSF
   6
   7 ;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
   8
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  22
  23 ;;; Commentary:
  24
  25 ;; This package can be used to arrange for automatic uncompress of
  26 ;; files packed with the UNIX compress(1) utility when they are visited.
  27 ;; All that's necessary is to load it.  This can conveniently be done from
  28 ;; your .emacs file.
  29
  30 ;;; Code:
  31
  32 ;; When we are about to make a backup file,
  33 ;; uncompress the file we visited
  34 ;; so that making the backup can work properly.
  35 ;; This is used as a write-file-hook.
  36
  37 (defun uncompress-backup-file ()
  38   (and buffer-file-name make-backup-files (not buffer-backed-up)
  39        (not (file-exists-p buffer-file-name))
  40        (call-process "uncompress" nil nil nil buffer-file-name))
  41   nil)
  42
  43 (or (assoc "\\.Z$" auto-mode-alist)
  44     (setq auto-mode-alist
  45           (cons '("\\.Z$" . uncompress-while-visiting) auto-mode-alist)))
  46
  47 (defun uncompress-while-visiting ()
  48   "Temporary \"major mode\" used for .Z files, to uncompress the contents.
  49 It then selects a major mode from the uncompressed file name and contents."
  50   (if (and (not (null buffer-file-name))
  51            (string-match "\\.Z$" buffer-file-name))
  52       (set-visited-file-name
  53        (substring buffer-file-name 0 (match-beginning 0))))
  54   (message "Uncompressing...")
  55   (let ((buffer-read-only nil))
  56     (shell-command-on-region (point-min) (point-max) "uncompress" t))
  57   (message "Uncompressing...done")
  58   (set-buffer-modified-p nil)
  59   (make-local-variable 'write-file-hooks)
  60   (or (memq 'uncompress-backup-file write-file-hooks)
  61       (setq write-file-hooks (cons 'uncompress-backup-file write-file-hooks)))
  62   (normal-mode))
  63
  64 (or (memq 'find-compressed-version find-file-not-found-hooks)
  65     (setq find-file-not-found-hooks
  66           (cons 'find-compressed-version find-file-not-found-hooks)))
  67
  68 (defun find-compressed-version ()
  69   "Hook to read and uncompress the compressed version of a file."
  70   ;; Just pretend we had visited the compressed file,
  71   ;; and uncompress-while-visiting will do the rest.
  72   (if (file-exists-p (concat buffer-file-name ".Z"))
  73       (progn
  74         (setq buffer-file-name (concat buffer-file-name ".Z"))
  75         (insert-file-contents buffer-file-name t)
  76         (goto-char (point-min))
  77         (setq error nil)
  78         t)))
  79
  80 (provide 'uncompress)
  81
  82 ;;; uncompress.el ends here