[Feature Request] View gzip compressed files
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This is a feature request.
It would be great if Notepad++ could work with gzip compressed text files, handling all the decompression transparently, like xemacs does. We often work with very large XML files that are created in gzip compressed format. Being able to view and edit the files in Notepad++ without having to decompress them completely first would be really useful.
Perhaps others on this mailing list could comment if they would also find this feature useful so that the amount of support it could be gauged.
Thank you.
Just out of interest, does anyone with experience of Scintilla here know whether it would be possible to achieve compressed file handling with the existing Scintilla editor framework, thus requiring (apparently large) modifications to NP++ code only, or is the Scintilla editor library itself not designed to allow the handling of compressed files?
Thanks.
Hm, "very large" XML files? Considering that scintilla (and thus Notepad++) doesn't handle very large files well, viewing/editign anything that's big enough to warrant compression doesn't sound like a particularly good idea :)
Anyway, you won't be able to get around the "decompress them completely" stage - it can be done transparently, but you do need complete decompression before you can edit... unless you're willing to do major core changes to NP++ :)