Bug Loading *.el.gz files into GNU/Linux Emacs.

Bug Loading *.el.gz files into GNU/Linux Emacs.

[Davin Pearson]

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When I try the following

C-h f global-font-lock-mode-check-buffers

Press RET on the hyperlink font-core.el

I comes back at you with the following
verbatim text:

  r-xrwS-w- 15810023/15240742 995161187 ;;; font-core.el --- Core interface
to font-lock  -*- lexical-binding: t; -*-

;; Copyright (C) 1992

And nothing else.  This is clearly a bug in Emacs.  Luckily for me I
can gunzip file font-core.el.gz and then save it as font-core.el for
browsing at my leisure.

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Re: Bug Loading *.el.gz files into GNU/Linux Emacs.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Davin Pearson <davin.pearson@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2022 13:19:15 +1200
> 
> When I try the following
> 
> C-h f global-font-lock-mode-check-buffers
> 
> Press RET on the hyperlink font-core.el
> 
> I comes back at you with the following
> verbatim text:
> 
>   r-xrwS-w- 15810023/15240742 995161187 ;;; font-core.el --- Core interface to font-lock  -*- lexical-binding:
> t; -*-
> 
> ;; Copyright (C) 1992

I cannot reproduce this: for me it shows the definition of that
function (after uncompressing font-core.el.gz).

Can you visit .el.gz files in Emacs? does that work?  If not, I guess
your gzip installation needs fixing.

P.S. Please in the future report any problems you have with Emacs
using "M-x report-emacs-bug RET", and if you are unsure whether it's a
bug or a cockpit error, post to help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org first.  This
list is not the best place for such discussions.