diff lisp/uncompress.el @ 21:8136d331c964

Initial revision

--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/lisp/uncompress.el	Sun Feb 05 05:17:10 1989 +0000
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+;; When we are about to make a backup file,
+;; uncompress the file we visited
+;; so that making the backup can work properly.
+;; This is used as a write-file-hook.
+
+(defun uncompress-backup-file ()
+  (and buffer-file-name make-backup-files (not buffer-backed-up)
+       (not (file-exists-p buffer-file-name))
+       (call-process "uncompress" nil nil nil buffer-file-name))
+  nil)
+
+(or (assoc "\\.Z$" auto-mode-alist)
+    (setq auto-mode-alist
+	  (cons '("\\.Z$" . uncompress-while-visiting) auto-mode-alist)))
+
+(defun uncompress-while-visiting ()
+  "Temporary \"major mode\" used for .Z files, to uncompress the contents.
+It then selects a major mode from the uncompressed file name and contents."
+  (if (and (not (null buffer-file-name))
+	   (string-match "\\.Z$" buffer-file-name))
+      (set-visited-file-name
+       (substring buffer-file-name 0 (match-beginning 0))))
+  (message "Uncompressing...")
+  (let ((buffer-read-only nil))
+    (shell-command-on-region (point-min) (point-max) "uncompress" t))
+  (message "Uncompressing...done")
+  (set-buffer-modified-p nil)
+  (make-local-variable 'write-file-hooks)
+  (or (memq 'uncompress-backup-file write-file-hooks)
+      (setq write-file-hooks (cons 'uncompress-backup-file write-file-hooks)))
+  (normal-mode))
+
+(or (memq 'find-compressed-version find-file-not-found-hooks)
+    (setq find-file-not-found-hooks
+	  (cons 'find-compressed-version find-file-not-found-hooks)))
+
+(defun find-compressed-version ()
+  "Hook to read and uncompress the compressed version of a file."
+  ;; Just pretend we had visited the compressed file,
+  ;; and uncompress-while-visiting will do the rest.
+  (if (file-exists-p (concat buffer-file-name ".Z"))
+      (progn
+	(setq buffer-file-name (concat buffer-file-name ".Z"))
+	(insert-file-contents buffer-file-name t)
+	(goto-char (point-min))
+	(setq error nil)
+	t)))