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Re: Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory
From: |
Arthur Miller |
Subject: |
Re: Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Aug 2021 19:24:12 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tue, 10 Aug 2021 at 19:08, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>> What is your problem with compressed *.el files? When Emacs visits
>> such a file, it uncompresses it, so you see the original source. And
>> yet people keep mentioning the .gz extension as if it were a huge
>> problem. What am I missing?
>
> I have an unconfirmed guess that some people want not only to see the
> code but also hack it. In this use case, it is desirable for M-. to
> take them to the actual hackable code so that any changes persist
> across Emacs restarts and are seen by version control.
I actually usually don't, but that is a valid reason too. If I hack
something in Emacs, I copy that piece of code somewhere else, or entire
file and use that instead.
- Re: Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory, (continued)
- Re: Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2021/08/10
- Re: Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/08/10
- Re: Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory, Stefan Monnier, 2021/08/10
- Re: Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/08/10
- Re: Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory, Stefan Monnier, 2021/08/11
- Re: Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory, Basil L. Contovounesios, 2021/08/11
- Re: Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/08/11
- Re: Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory, Basil L. Contovounesios, 2021/08/11
- Re: Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/08/12
- Re: Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory, Clément Pit-Claudel, 2021/08/10
- Re: Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory,
Arthur Miller <=
- Re: Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory, Arthur Miller, 2021/08/10
- Re: Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/08/10
- Re: Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory, Arthur Miller, 2021/08/09
- Re: Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory, dick, 2021/08/09
- Re: Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory, Arthur Miller, 2021/08/09
Re: Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory, Philip Kaludercic, 2021/08/19