On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> vim allows listing contents of a tar{.gz,bz2}/tgz/... file and
> is supposed to allow viewing of files internal to that tar.
> amongst other things, this is convenient for use with a mail
> client to read files inside a .tgz posted to ports@/etc.
>
> the contents listing does currently works with /bin/tar
> however viewing internal files fails (you just get a blank
> screen) as this requires GNU tar options.
>
> diff below changes tar.vim to use gtar; I haven't added it as
> a run dependency as I don't think it's required in the normal
> case, and the error message when it fails is perfectly clear
> (<***error*** (tar#Browse) "gtar" not available on your system)
> but could do so if preferred.
>
> ok?
ok. And also NOT adding gtar as a run dependency makes sense to me.
Ciao,
David
