Re: etags: M-. looks for an uncompressed Emacs Lisp source file, but make install installs it gzipped

[Francesco Potorti`]

>But it works with
>(custom-set-variables
>  '(auto-compression-mode t nil (jka-compr)))
>in your .emacs?

I did:

emacs -Q
eval the above form in *scratch*
cd to the right directory
M-. main RET
RET --> it works

So evaluating that form or disabling and reenabling
auto-compression-mode manually gives the same results, which are good.

Apparently auto-compression-mode is enabled by default (it was not in
Emacs 21), but in a bad way.