Re: odt file instant open

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 26.07.2010 18:29, schrieb Olwe Melwasul:
> I'm trying to grok the open document format, so I took the first wild
> and crazy step of simply trying to open it in Emacs (23.2.1) -- and it
> opened up to a "Zip-Archive Narrow" view of all the files contained
> therein Poking around on the Internet, I found that Emacs
> automatically unpacks a .odt file, which is nothing more than a zip
> file. My question is this: How is Emacs doing this?

by calling a shell-command resp. to the ending found.
Exists a list with endings --.zip, .tgz, .gz etc.-- and programs to run for.
Have a look at dired-do-compress for the details.

 What code is
> running (what .el is invoked)

probably dired-find-file

HTH


Andreas

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 to make this happen? Also, where might
> documentation be on how to control this zip/unzip functionality with
> elisp. I don't want to do a system call, i.e., reinvent the wheel.
>
> O