On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:09 PM, Rob Browning <[email protected]> wrote: > Rustom Mody <[email protected]> writes: > >> The elisp files in emacs23-el are stored zipped. Those who want these >> files want them because they want to search something -- the zipping >> makes this a nuisance. >> >> Isn't it possible to have some option which we can pass to >> dpkg-reconfigure so that they are stored uncompressed? > > I don't know of any easy way to do that right now. It might not suit > your needs, but are you familiar with zgrep?
Yes I currently use zgrep (with find xargs etc all that headache) I just thought that it may be simpler just $ dpkg-reconfigure -dont-compress emacs23-el or something like that > > And of course all of the normal emacs introspection functions should > work fine too (appropos, etc.). Yeah sure. Its when the elisp needs browsing that the gzipped form is a nuisance. Thanks for looking at it Rusi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
