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Re: locate-library doesn't find new compressed el.gz files
From: |
Romain Francoise |
Subject: |
Re: locate-library doesn't find new compressed el.gz files |
Date: |
Wed, 02 Nov 2005 17:19:31 +0100 |
"Andrew M. Scott" <address@hidden> writes:
> (locate-library "cc-mode.el") erroneously returns nil, not noticing
> that the cc-mode.el.gz exists.
Is that a problem in practice?
It returns nil because there is no library named "cc-mode.el", there is
a library named "cc-mode.el.gz". If you specify no extension, it will
use load-suffixes and locate the library correctly.
(All the uses of `locate-library' in Emacs are correct.)
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