[RFC] bzr.jrydberg.versionedfile

Jan Hudec bulb at ucw.cz
Thu Dec 22 06:19:30 GMT 2005


On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 20:54:02 -0600, John Arbash Meinel wrote:
> 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'

Looking in the plugin... they are by extension only.

> would just work. (It uncompresses the file into /tmp, I'm guessing it
> would save the changes, but I'm not positive).

Yes, it would. But again by extension. Means when you :saveas something.gz,
it will be gzipped.

-- 
						 Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <bulb at ucw.cz>
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