On 12/02/09 02:07, Gary Johnson wrote:
> On 2009-02-12, Tony Mechelynck<antoine.mechely...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> And then there are people like me who can un- .zip files if they have
>> to, but prefer to gunzip them (un- .gz), which is the Unix standard (as
>> opposed to the Microsoft Megabucks LoseDough standard). And note that if
>> the right tools are present (gunzip in the $PATH), a compressed vimball
>> (*.vba.gz) will (if I'm not mistaken) be handled by Vim just as easily
>> as an ordinary one.
>
> Yes, it will, except that when you open the gzipped file with
>
> vim someplugin.vba.gz
>
> the original file is automatically gunzipped and replaced by the
> gunzipped version, e.g., somefile.vba. I wish the vimball plugin
> wouldn't do that. If I'm going to keep the archive around for a
> while, I'd rather keep it in its gzipped form. Besides, I should be
> able to use vim to just look at a file without modifying it.
>
> Regards,
> Gary
That's how gunzip normally works. You can keep the compressed file by doing
gunzip -c somefile.vba.gz > somefile.vba
or
gunzip -c somefile.vba.gz | view -
which uncompresses to stdout (hence the redirection) and keeps the *.gz.
(You may have a script or softlink named zcat or gzcat which is
equivalent to gunzip -c).
Best regards,
Tony.
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