Questions tagged [compression]
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Native data compression in emacs?
Is it possible to compress data (an Elisp string for example) using Emacs (without calling 3rd-party commands)? I noticed Emacs uses zlib, but I only found zlib-decompress-region.
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How can I determine if a file is compressed from Elisp?
I know that I can use the file command to determine this, but I'd like a cross-platform solution using elisp only (or as few subprocesses as possible). I have the compressed data in a variable called response; you can use the following shell…
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How can I edit files within encrypted zip files?
Currently I can use emacs to edit text files within zip files no problem. I simply get a directory listing from which I can choose the document that I want to edit.
Is there anyway to edit text files that are located within encrypted zip files?
I…
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Can emacs emulate zgrep -a in zrgrep?
Currently I can grep (in command line) the gzip files I receive using the command zgrep -a something logs.tar.gz it outputs every line inside the logs.tar.gz but without the file where it was found, so is 80% useful.
Then I turned to emacs but when…
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`url-inhibit-uncompression` is ineffective; emulating curl with url.el
Consider the following:
(let ((url-inhibit-uncompression t))
(switch-to-buffer
(url-retrieve-synchronously
"http://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/filter/create")))
I would expect to get something that looks mostly like garbage as the content…
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Generate/use etags for compressed (.el.gz) libraries?
I wanted to generate a tags table for the lisp libraries that my Emacs came with, located in
/path/to/emacs/25.1/lisp/
There's a mix of compressed and uncompressed files in that directory, so I ran etags *.el{.gz,} to build the TAGS file.
Now…
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dired, zip as a directory
With archivemount, one can mount a zip file. Is there any way to treat a zip file just like a directory in dired?
The we wouldn't have to unzip the archive, which takes time and you probably need to clean up as well. Another alternative is mounting,…
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Show progress bar for long operation?
Linux Mint 20.2
Emacs 27.2
When I do some long operation not show progress bar.
Is it possible to show progress bar in this situation?
Examples of long operations:
Copy many files
Copy big files
Compress/Uncompress archive
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How can I make dired display .tbz2 files
When using dired and I see a .tar.xz file I can visit this file in other window () and the file is a browsable tar archive.
How do I get .tbz2 files to behave in the same way?
I am using emacs versions 25 and 27
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