Re: Putting auto-image-file-mode in Options menu

[Kevin Rodgers]

Richard Stallman wrote:
>     I would like to ask the same question for auto-compression-mode too.
>     What is the reason not to turn it on by default?  How often people
>     visit compressed files for editing without uncompressing?
>
> I often save a buffer of compressed data into a file name FOO.gz.
> If Auto Compression mode is enabled, it does a second compression.
> So I have to turn off Auto Compression mode for that.
>
> It would be nice to make Auto Compression mode DTRT in that case.
> Maybe then there would be no reason ever to turn it off.
> Can anyone see a way to do this?

What is buffer-file-coding-system set to in that buffer?  How
do you insert the compressed data into it?

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Kevin Rodgers