Re: Reading compressed files in XEmacs

["Gary Hennigan" <glhenni@sandia.gov>]

Kristopher Johnson <nosleep@atl.mediaone.net> writes:
> The XEmacs documentation seems to imply that it can open
> compressed files--that is, it will automatically uncompress them,
> let you edit, and then recompress if you made changes.
> 
> But this doesn't work for me.  Opening a *.gz file just shows me
> the compressed form.  Is there something special I need to do to
> enable the automatic decompression?

I've found that although XEmacs seems to think auto-compression is on
it doesn't work unless I toggle it off and then on again, eg.:

M-x auto-compression-mode
M-x auto-compression-mode

The first turns it off, the second back on again. After that I'm
golden and can read *.gz files just fine.

Gary