Re: [Nano-devel] Fwd: .gz support, DONE

[Benno Schulenberg]

On Sun, Jan 10, 2016, at 21:37, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On 10 Jan 2016 20:20, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > If we add the ability to edit zipped
> > files, it should be generic, it should work for all sorts
> > of compression -- or at least be easily extendible by just
> > modifying one or two lines.
> 
> i don't know about that.  gzipped files (.gz) are just copression.
> zipped files (.zip) are archive+compression.  i don't think we want
> to get anywhere near archives.

Of course.  With "zipped" I meant gzipped, bzipped and
xzipped files, not zip archives, or any other archives.

Benno

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