[RFC] bzr.jrydberg.versionedfile

[John Arbash Meinel]

Matthew D. Fuller wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 08:14:07AM -0600 I heard the voice of
> John Arbash Meinel, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
>>With a gzipped file, I can run zcat foo | vim -, and still see the
>>internals.
> 
> 
> Actually (at least with my vim), you can just open the gzip'd file
> directly, and it will uncompress it to show (and probably recompess
> when you save, though I've not tried that).
> 

It does as long as it can determine that it was gzipped. I wasn't sure
what the autodetect rules were, so I didn't want to state that 'vim foo'
would just work. (It uncompresses the file into /tmp, I'm guessing it
would save the changes, but I'm not positive).

John
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