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Re: lynx and readme.gz



On 2008-11-24 03:04 +0100, lee wrote:

> Hi,
>
> how do I configure lynx to display or to have an option to display
> gziped files (like README.Debian.gz) instead of only offering to
> download them?
>
> The w3 mode of emacs doesn't display them, either. Can that be changed
> to display them? Hm, emacs22 loads and ungzips gziped files, but
> emacs21 loads the gziped version without ungziping it.

Put a line with

(auto-compression-mode 1)

into your ~/.emacs.

> And w3 mode is
> not available for the current emacs ...

Use w3m-el, it is much better than w3 since it does not block Emacs
while retrieving data from the web.

Sven


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