Re: [Nano-devel] Fwd: .gz support

[Benno Schulenberg]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015, at 21:54, Chris Allegretta wrote:
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> From: Tilman WEIERS <address@hidden>
> Subject: .gz support
> 
> would it be possible to add support for .txt.gz files, please?

My first reaction was: don't do that, you can't edit compressed
files.  And: when allowing that, people might start to expect to
be able to edit all kinds of files.  For example, when opening an
mp3 file, edit the tags.  Or when opening an odt file, to allow
to edit the text.

(By the way, I thought that odt was a human-readable format,
but such files are full of binary garbage.)

But this .gz stuff, wouldn't it be better to implement this
through a nano.sh script?  A script that detects the kind of
compression, decompresses, calls nano, and recompresses the
flle aftwerward?

Benno

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