pi_gzip.txt For Vim version 7.4. Last change: 2012 Jul 19LINK

VIM REFERENCE MANUAL by Bram Moolenaar

Editing compressed files with Vim gzip bzip2 compressLINK

1. Autocommands gzip-autocmd

The functionality mentioned here is a standard-plugin.

This plugin is only available if 'compatible' is not set.

You can avoid loading this plugin by setting the "loaded_gzip" variable:

:let loaded_gzip = 1

{Vi does not have any of this}

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1. Autocommands gzip-autocmdLINK

The plugin installs autocommands to intercept reading and writing of files

with these extensions:

extension compression

*.Z compress (Lempel-Ziv)

*.gz gzip

*.bz2 bzip2

*.lzma lzma

*.xz xz

That's actually the only thing you need to know. There are no options.

After decompressing a file, the filetype will be detected again. This will

make a file like "foo.c.gz" get the "c" filetype.

If you have 'patchmode' set, it will be appended after the extension for

compression. Thus editing the patchmode file will not give you the automatic

decompression. You have to rename the file if you want this.

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