Re: TUTORIAL.gz

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> 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.
>> I don't think we should worry about this.
> Can you explain why not?

Because it's unlikely (how many people are going to disable
auto-compression-mode, really?  how many of those will run in an
environment where the TUTORIAL files are compressed?  how many of those
will want to read the tutorial?), and even if it ever happens I don't think
it'll be terrible.  Rather than force auto-compression-mode ON temporarily,
if you really insist on handling this case, just detect it and output
a warning like "can't read it 'cause you foolishly disabled
auto-compression-mode".


        Stefan