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From: "Mathias Dahl" <mathias.dahl@gmail.com>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: byte-compiling compressed files
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:09:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7dbe73ed0708150009w1653d4b5ubc79ca2a62c41539@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1IL5mg-0000ql-Dr@fencepost.gnu.org>

> You can visit a compressed .el file, but you can't byte compile it.
> Do people think it would be a good idea to add such a feature?

I can see how it might be handy, but I cannot say that I would use it
much. How about other operations, like for example being able to copy
the uncompressed file to some place? An example:

C-x C-f test.el.gz RET ;; File opened and uncompressed.
M-x copy-file RET M-n ;; Doing this, test.el.gz is presented.

I could of course do C-x C-w to write the buffer contents to a new
file. Maybe there are similar scenarios?

      reply	other threads:[~2007-08-15  7:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-14 23:26 byte-compiling compressed files Richard Stallman
2007-08-15  7:09 ` Mathias Dahl [this message]

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