Re: vim 5.3, gzip files, and Debian Slink

[Steve Lamb <morpheus@rpglink.com>]

On Wed, Sep 15, 1999 at 09:46:28AM -0400, John Davis wrote:
> Does Debian somehow do something to the gzip files before vim edits them
> or something?  Is magic involved?

    Look at the vimrc file that comes with the Debian installation of vim.  It
has the following in it:


augroup gzip
  " Remove all gzip autocommands
  au!

  " Enable editing of gzipped files
  "	  read:	set binary mode before reading the file
  "		uncompress text in buffer after reading
  "	 write:	compress file after writing
  "	append:	uncompress file, append, compress file
  autocmd BufReadPre,FileReadPre	*.gz set bin
  autocmd BufReadPre,FileReadPre	*.gz let ch_save = &ch|set ch=2
  autocmd BufReadPost,FileReadPost	*.gz '[,']!gunzip
  autocmd BufReadPost,FileReadPost	*.gz set nobin
  autocmd BufReadPost,FileReadPost	*.gz let &ch = ch_save|unlet ch_save
  autocmd BufReadPost,FileReadPost	*.gz execute ":doautocmd BufReadPost " . %:r

  autocmd BufWritePost,FileWritePost	*.gz !mv <afile> <afile>:r
  autocmd BufWritePost,FileWritePost	*.gz !gzip <afile>:r

  autocmd FileAppendPre			*.gz !gunzip <afile>
  autocmd FileAppendPre			*.gz !mv <afile>:r <afile>
  autocmd FileAppendPost		*.gz !mv <afile> <afile>:r
  autocmd FileAppendPost		*.gz !gzip <afile>:r
augroup END

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