On 2018-06-17, at 01:45, Jean-Christophe Helary <brandel...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> When you open com.apple.Dock.plist for ex. BBEdit gives you a standard xml 
> file. TextEdit or any other standard text editor (emacs, nano, etc.) give you 
> a binary blob.


>From the friendly manual:

> BBEdit transparently opens and displays the contents of any bz2 or 
> gzip-compressed files (“.bz2”, “.gz” and “.gzip” files), as well as tarballs 
> (“.tar” files) and binary plists (“.plist” files), both directly and during 
> multi-file search.
> 
> This is especially useful for viewing and working with system log files and 
> similar automatically-generated files, as well as system and application 
> preference files.
> 
> If you make any changes to such a file and save it, BBEdit will automatically 
> re-compress or re-convert the file on save. 

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