From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 17:01:31 +0300 Message-ID: <83o8a5flfo.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87y29cj65y.fsf@posteo.net> <87czqna77n.fsf@dick> <878s1ba1nl.fsf@dick> <4324d238-261f-946d-eb6b-a98bea3a1157@gmail.com> <83eeb2h7v4.fsf@gnu.org> <024825b3-fa33-a852-5115-1ee56ae47041@gmail.com> <83zgtpfqqx.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="31568"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, arthur.miller@live.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Yuri Khan Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 10 16:02:32 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mDSKu-00081B-08 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 10 Aug 2021 16:02:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56144 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mDSKs-0006SY-IS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 10 Aug 2021 10:02:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:47700) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mDSJn-0004qN-Jn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 10 Aug 2021 10:01:23 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:50214) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mDSJn-0006u5-41; Tue, 10 Aug 2021 10:01:23 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.95.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.95]:2603 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mDSJm-0003lo-MZ; Tue, 10 Aug 2021 10:01:23 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Yuri Khan on Tue, 10 Aug 2021 20:43:30 +0700) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:272275 Archived-At: > From: Yuri Khan > Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 20:43:30 +0700 > Cc: Arthur Miller , Clément Pit-Claudel , > Emacs developers > > On Tue, 10 Aug 2021 at 19:08, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > > What is your problem with compressed *.el files? When Emacs visits > > such a file, it uncompresses it, so you see the original source. And > > yet people keep mentioning the .gz extension as if it were a huge > > problem. What am I missing? > > I have an unconfirmed guess that some people want not only to see the > code but also hack it. In this use case, it is desirable for M-. to > take them to the actual hackable code so that any changes persist > across Emacs restarts and are seen by version control. But the .el.gz files that Emacs displays _are_ "hackable", in the sense that you can modify it and then save the results. Right?