Re: TUTORIAL.gz

[David Reitter]

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? I mean, if a site-wide installation (or distribution)  
compresses stuff like tutorials and, more importantly, things like  
NEWS, then Emacs should load these files on request no matter whether  
the user has turned off auto-compression-mode. It would be seen as a  
bug if it didn't.


> Actually, jka-compr.el should provide a list of extensions it  
> understands,
> so we wouldn't have to hard-code .gz here.  I guess jka-compr-load- 
> suffixes
> could be used for that.

Isn't it more than enough to support distribution-wide .gz compression?