Re: Compressing nnfolders..

[Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@ccs.neu.edu>]

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>>>>> "LMI" == Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@ifi.uio.no> writes:

>> Is there any possibility of doing some kind of compress-backend?
LMI> There should be a way to use the jka-compr thingies.

jka-compr needs two things to make that happen:

1: jka-aux, which does not work in GNU Emacs 19.29/19.30.  Big problem,
   here, may or may not be resolved soon.  I would expect not as the
   autoload problems are still in jka-compr (autoload had a number of
   new forms added that are not accounted for in jka-compr).

2: Minor hackery in the backend .el files to expand the regular
   expressions used in buffers filled with the output of 'ls', to
   include a regular expression built out of jka-aux-extensions.
   Normally this is a simple list, '(".gz" ".Z")', should not be too
   difficult to turn into a regexp.  This is key, as the
   jka-compr/jka-aux functions will not operate inside buffers.

I have been using jka-compr/jka-aux in this fashion, with gzipped nnml
files, since... I forget how long :).

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