Re: find-file does not report missing gzip

[Richard M. Stallman]

Does this give good results?  It worked in a simple test.

*** jka-compr.el        06 May 2005 14:54:43 -0400      1.84
--- jka-compr.el        25 Jun 2005 00:18:11 -0400      
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*** 474,479 ****
--- 474,482 ----
                          (delete-region (point) (point-max)))
                      (goto-char start))
                  (error
+                  ;; If the file we wanted to uncompress does not exist,
+                  ;; handle that according to VISIT as `insert-file-contents'
+                  ;; would, maybe signaling the same error it normally would.
                   (if (and (eq (car error-code) 'file-error)
                            (eq (nth 3 error-code) local-file))
                       (if visit
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*** 481,486 ****
--- 484,496 ----
                         (signal 'file-error
                                 (cons "Opening input file"
                                       (nthcdr 2 error-code))))
+                    ;; If the uncompression program can't be found,
+                    ;; signal that as a non-file error
+                    ;; so that find-file-noselect-1 won't handle it.
+                    (if (and (eq (car error-code) 'file-error)
+                             (equal (cadr error-code) "Searching for program"))
+                        (error "Uncompression program `%s' not found"
+                               (nth 3 error-code)))
                     (signal (car error-code) (cdr error-code))))))
  
            (and