From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Mathias Dahl" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: byte-compiling compressed files Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:09:00 +0200 Message-ID: <7dbe73ed0708150009w1653d4b5ubc79ca2a62c41539@mail.gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187161753 19080 80.91.229.12 (15 Aug 2007 07:09:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 07:09:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 15 09:09:11 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ILD09-00010h-CW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:09:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ILD08-0000H6-Gd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:09:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ILD05-0000GG-Fy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:09:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ILD03-0000Cf-3I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:09:04 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ILD02-0000CU-V0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:09:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ILD02-0006Qv-IR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:09:02 -0400 Original-Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.187]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ILD01-00017a-O7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 03:09:01 -0400 Original-Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c27so1489697rvf for ; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:09:00 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=d9CpQMueBjVRolvD06pFbeX1lvw5AZD+s+btRp9Rvd6BzkmTdOc/UgiFo2dqzijTX/+WcvcW0z+wf6vsqIc5NCvi+6GMal4NkUk7Vh++QZ74PK1juNoEeVSjxEthRFOmg27OSVXurOM/FpTqtHoMPyEQv3XA7b0gIUjjlSpCghQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=i2eBpN/vVnLWgIrrPgZanPciP4IPDoAA3x+Hufe5KqJCBIir7bT0MBVzb7qRiG75fve0ZKuR7SJ3knu/YcFRzZh83ZeBZzE3yvDU981ezM7qVMHB+hVIQc1eJ0b5G0FLzJMPGlI+uXpe+5EwoJSJhxlxDdFEjlR8hzK6n6wuLcg= Original-Received: by 10.141.50.17 with SMTP id c17mr84010rvk.1187161740463; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:09:00 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.141.172.10 with HTTP; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 00:09:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:76552 Archived-At: > 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?