sublime-compressor

Small plugin which transparently decompresses gzip (.gz) and bzip2 (.bz2) files when opened in Sublime Text.

This is an alpha release, use with care, feedback & code welcome!

When opening a new file this plugin will check the filename for a known compression suffix (.gz,.bz2 currently). If this matches, the useless binary view of the file will be closed and a new temporary file will be opened, filled with the decompressed content.

Installation

As usual via Package Control.

Current limitations (feedback & code welcome)

• read only (would be cool if compressed file was substituted on save)
• compressed file contents are assumed to be 'utf-8' encoded (maybe decompress into temp file which is opened the normal way instead? (allows for encoding detection))
• single threaded (decompression should take place in bg thread)
• no partial decompression (full file is decompressed and inserted in new file, maybe it's possible to just decompress a window)
• no xz, lzma, flat zip-file support
• compressor detection only based on filename, maybe use something similar to the file command
• re-opening compressed file that is opened in a tab already will not jump to that tab but decompress it into a second copy