Re: How to disable file extension auto-detection or auto-action?

[Andrea Crotti]

"Tadeus (Eus) Prastowo" <0x657573@googlemail.com> writes:

> Hi!
>
> When working on a bug in apt-cacher[1], I needed to read the content
> of *.bz2 files that actually were only text files. But, every time I
> open a .bz2 file, Emacs sees the extension and does auto-decompression
> resulting in an empty buffer.
>
> Is there a way to open a file dumbly without any sort of auto-action?
>
> Thank you.
>
> [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=618996

Hi Tadeus (I think you know me :))

If the files .bz2 that you want to modify have something unique (like a
path prefix) you might also add an entry to auto-mode-alist with a
matching regexp.

For example
"bugs.*.bz2$" . fundamental-mode

In this way you get automatically the desired behaviour locally.
If they're all in the same directory you might even use some
dir-local-variable.

Hope it helps!
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 of 2011-03-04 on plaetekopp