From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Help hyperlinks only work when auto-compression-mode is enabled. Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:26:56 -0400 Message-ID: References: <20070610101159.GA2311@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1181503627 1805 80.91.229.12 (10 Jun 2007 19:27:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:27:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 10 21:27:05 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 1HxT45-0003C5-Cu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 21:27:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HxT44-00044b-SY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:27:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HxT3z-0003yf-SA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:26:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HxT3y-0003vD-Gi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:26:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HxT3y-0003v2-CT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:26:58 -0400 Original-Received: from tomts40.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.97] helo=tomts40-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HxT3y-0007No-02 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:26:58 -0400 Original-Received: from pastel.home ([70.55.146.35]) by tomts40-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20070610192657.YPAO1542.tomts40-srv.bellnexxia.net@pastel.home> for ; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:26:57 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id EB0DC80D9; Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:26:56 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <20070610101159.GA2311@muc.de> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Sun\, 10 Jun 2007 11\:11\:59 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: Solaris 8 (1) 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:72587 Archived-At: > Hi, Emacs! > Emacs -Q > M-x auto-compression-mode > C-h f revert-buffer > C-x o ; Point is now over `files.el' > ; To go to the definition of `revert-buffer' > This gives the error message "Can't find library files.el". The reason > for this is that the source is actually in files.el.gz, and this can > only be read when auto-compression-mode is enabled. Who compressed files.el? I don't think this is a standard procedure. Or were you using a version of Emacs packaged by some distribution like Debian? If so, please complain to them. > This is not good; even though a-c-m is enabled by default, our help system > should still work if a user disables a-c-m (OUTCH!!! ;-). Most of the help still works. You just can't jump to the source code as easily. I'm not absolutely opposed to your patch, but I don't really like it and find its need very debatable. Stefan