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-" Vim plugin for editing compressed files.
-" Maintainer: Bram Moolenaar <Bram@vim.org>
-" Last Change: 2009 Jul 01
-
-" Exit quickly when:
-" - this plugin was already loaded
-" - when 'compatible' is set
-" - some autocommands are already taking care of compressed files
-if exists("loaded_gzip") || &cp || exists("#BufReadPre#*.gz")
-  finish
-endif
-let loaded_gzip = 1
-
-augroup gzip
-  " Remove all gzip autocommands
-  au!
-
-  " Enable editing of gzipped files.
-  " The functions are defined in autoload/gzip.vim.
-  "
-  " Set binary mode before reading the file.
-  " Use "gzip -d", gunzip isn't always available.
-  autocmd BufReadPre,FileReadPre	*.gz,*.bz2,*.Z,*.lzma setlocal bin
-  autocmd BufReadPost,FileReadPost	*.gz  call gzip#read("gzip -dn")
-  autocmd BufReadPost,FileReadPost	*.bz2 call gzip#read("bzip2 -d")
-  autocmd BufReadPost,FileReadPost	*.Z   call gzip#read("uncompress")
-  autocmd BufReadPost,FileReadPost	*.lzma call gzip#read("lzma -d")
-  autocmd BufWritePost,FileWritePost	*.gz  call gzip#write("gzip")
-  autocmd BufWritePost,FileWritePost	*.bz2 call gzip#write("bzip2")
-  autocmd BufWritePost,FileWritePost	*.Z   call gzip#write("compress -f")
-  autocmd BufWritePost,FileWritePost	*.lzma call gzip#write("lzma -z")
-  autocmd FileAppendPre			*.gz  call gzip#appre("gzip -dn")
-  autocmd FileAppendPre			*.bz2 call gzip#appre("bzip2 -d")
-  autocmd FileAppendPre			*.Z   call gzip#appre("uncompress")
-  autocmd FileAppendPre			*.lzma call gzip#appre("lzma -d")
-  autocmd FileAppendPost		*.gz  call gzip#write("gzip")
-  autocmd FileAppendPost		*.bz2 call gzip#write("bzip2")
-  autocmd FileAppendPost		*.Z   call gzip#write("compress -f")
-  autocmd FileAppendPost		*.lzma call gzip#write("lzma -z")
-augroup END