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Karl
Karl

Reputation: 437

How to open ".z" file in emacs?

I have a plaintext file named ~/.z but when I open it with emacs --no-init-file, I get a blank buffer and a buffer named *jka-compr-error* which states

Error while executing "gzip -c -q -d < /home/username/.z"

gzip: stdin: not in gzip format

How can I open this file in emacs?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 210

Answers (3)

NickD
NickD

Reputation: 6402

Use find-file-literally. It does no conversions and it does not use the auto-mode-alist to set the major mode: it uses fundamental-mode instead.

Upvotes: 2

varro
varro

Reputation: 2482

Turn off auto-compression-mode in your .emacs file: (auto-compression-mode 0), and try again.

Upvotes: 1

TheRealDarkCoder
TheRealDarkCoder

Reputation: 39

.z is an unix compression file extension.

So probably you cant open it. But you can always extract it but i think extracting would not be the case here since you said thats a plaintext file.

Upvotes: 0

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