Editing compressed files with Vim gzip bzip2 compress

The functionality mentioned here is a standard-plugin. This plugin is only available if 'compatible' is not set. You can avoid loading this plugin by setting the "loaded_gzip" variable:

:let loaded_gzip = 1

For security reasons, one may prevent that Vim runs executables automatically when opening a buffer. This option (default: "1") can be used to prevent executing the executables command when set to "0":

:let g:gzip_exec = 0

1. Autocommands gzip-autocmd

The plugin installs autocommands to intercept reading and writing of files with these extensions:

extension compression

*.bz2		bzip2
*.bz3		bzip3
*.gz		gzip
*.lz		lzip
*.lz4		lz4
*.lzma		lzma
*.xz		xz
*.Z		compress (Lempel-Ziv)
*.zst		zstd

That's actually the only thing you need to know. There are no options.

After decompressing a file, the filetype will be detected again. This will make a file like "foo.c.gz" get the "c" filetype.

If you have 'patchmode' set, it will be appended after the extension for compression. Thus editing the patchmode file will not give you the automatic decompression. You have to rename the file if you want this.