UPDATE: deb-view.el 1.2: emacs tool for browsing deb files!
I've updated deb-view.el to handle viewing html files with w3-mode.
w3 can be found via anonymous ftp to ftp.cs.indiana.edu:/pub/elisp/w3.
For use within deb-view, I didn't need to install the "extras" or
"icons" that w3 recommends.
I had considered something special for INFO files, but info files are
pretty well readable as-is so it wasn't worth the effort.
Here is a shortened version of my original announcement:
I've written a tool for emacs that allows one to browse deb files.
It's nice to peek at a package file and read the doc, man pages,
html files, install scripts, file list, etc, without installing it first.
You can even copy files out of a deb archive if you want to!
Why emacs? Because most of the smarts to do this stuff was already in
emacs. I just gathered it together in a simple but clever way for Debian
users! ;-) Emacs users will recognize "tar-mode", the emacs feature
that that I'm exploiting.
You can get the latest deb-view.el from here:
http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~macdonal/deb-view.el
Sorry, I don't have anonymous ftp for you. The file is about 13KB.
If you can't get at it, I can email it to you.
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...RickM...
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