From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alex =?utf-8?Q?Benn=C3=A9e?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: searching elisp on debian/ubuntu Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 10:10:52 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1382692284 20461 80.91.229.3 (25 Oct 2013 09:11:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 09:11:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Rustom Mody Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 25 11:11:27 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VZdQS-00049F-Ba for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 11:11:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58239 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VZdQR-0006pS-LD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 05:11:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37515) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VZdQB-0006p1-KP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 05:11:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VZdQ3-00088O-Ac for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 05:11:07 -0400 Original-Received: from static.88-198-71-155.clients.your-server.de ([88.198.71.155]:59425 helo=socrates.bennee.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VZdQ3-00087J-4z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 05:10:59 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=sloy) by socrates.bennee.com with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VZdRr-00008F-LG; Fri, 25 Oct 2013 11:12:51 +0200 User-agent: mu4e 0.9.9.6pre2; emacs 24.3.1 In-reply-to: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: kernel-hacker@bennee.com X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on socrates.bennee.com); SAEximRunCond expanded to false X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 88.198.71.155 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:94207 Archived-At: rustompmody@gmail.com writes: > [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? > find /usr/share/emacs/23.4/lisp *.gz|xargs zgrep 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. > 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. -- Alex Bennée