From: Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: searching elisp on debian/ubuntu
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 04:34:19 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0217b185-f626-4d6c-afdb-38239b35f4d5@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.4678.1382692274.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
On Friday, October 25, 2013 2:40:52 PM UTC+5:30, Alex Bennée wrote:
> Rustom Mody wrote:
>
> > [This is more about debian ubuntu than emacs]
> >
> > When looking for something in elisp on debian/ubuntu there is the
> > nuisance that the files are gzipped. So Ive to do things like
>
> What sort of things are you looking for?
eg Figure out how the function 'make-translation-table' is used in elisp
etc etc
> > find /usr/share/emacs/23.4/lisp *.gz|xargs zgrep <something>
>
>
> Everything in your site-lisp should be visible within emacs even if they
> are autoloaded functions to start with.
>
>
> > because zgrep unlike grep has no recursive flag
>
> >
>
> > I believe that there is some dpkg/apt flag that says keep the files
> > unzipped.
>
>
> Not really. The files are in the package in their gzipped form. They get
> processed by various scripts but essentially they are as they are.
Heres a small snippet of directories.
$ pwd
/usr/share/emacs/24.3/lisp
$ ls
abbrev.elc foldout.elc pcmpl-gnu.elc
abbrev.el.gz foldout.el.gz pcmpl-gnu.el.gz
align.elc follow.elc pcmpl-linux.elc
align.el.gz follow.el.gz pcmpl-linux.el.gz
allout.elc font-core.elc pcmpl-rpm.elc
allout.el.gz font-core.el.gz pcmpl-rpm.el.gz
allout-widgets.elc font-lock.elc pcmpl-unix.elc
allout-widgets.el.gz font-lock.el.gz pcmpl-unix.el.gz
As you can see all files are elc or gzipped el.
>
> > Anyone know of it?
>
> However auto-compression-mode is your friend. You can visit .gz files
> withing Emacs and it will automagically deal with gz files for you.
Oh emacs opens gzipped files alright, so I guess auto-compression is working.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-25 11:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-25 3:11 searching elisp on debian/ubuntu Rustom Mody
2013-10-25 9:10 ` Alex Bennée
[not found] ` <mailman.4678.1382692274.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-10-25 11:34 ` Rustom Mody [this message]
2013-10-25 12:22 ` Alex Bennée
2013-10-25 17:38 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.4723.1382722719.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-10-25 18:46 ` translation tables (was searching elisp on debian/ubuntu) Rustom Mody
2013-10-25 13:29 ` searching elisp on debian/ubuntu Michael Heerdegen
2013-10-25 14:44 ` Alex Bennée
2013-10-25 15:28 ` Drew Adams
2013-10-25 15:55 ` Bob Proulx
[not found] ` <mailman.4721.1382716569.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-10-25 16:53 ` Rustom Mody
2013-10-25 19:28 ` Bob Proulx
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