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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT syncretize DOT net>
To: "'Robinow, David'" <drobinow AT dayton DOT adroit DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: gzip.exe as symlink...
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2002 07:32:17 +1000
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com 
> [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com] On Behalf Of Robinow, David
> Sent: Tuesday, 16 July 2002 7:30 AM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: RE: gzip.exe as symlink...
> 
> 
> > From: Nicholas Wourms [mailto:nwourms AT yahoo DOT com]
> > Subject: RE: gzip.exe as symlink...
> > Sigh, as usual the emacs camp always misses the point.  You 
> > use a shell
> > for file operations and you use an editor for editing.  Why 
> > is there any
> > need to muddle the two?  Vi is simple and elegant, whereas emacs is
> > well...  rather bloated and not very elegant.  Would you use 
> > a chainsaw to
> > cut a diamond?  I think not...
>   I may very well be missing the point. But I'm starting to 
> believe that
> "vi" is incapable of opening compressed files and that you 
> think this is an
> advantage.  I think I'll continue to miss that point.
>   Well, emacs can open compressed files and some people like 
> that feature.
> In any case, the use of that feature is what this whole 
> thread is about.

Vim opens compressed files very nicely on linux, if it doesn't on cygwin
I'd ask the maintainer nicely, or even look into it myself.

Rob


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