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From: | Alex Bennée |
Subject: | Re: searching elisp on debian/ubuntu |
Date: | Fri, 25 Oct 2013 10:10:52 +0100 |
User-agent: | mu4e 0.9.9.6pre2; emacs 24.3.1 |
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 <something> 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
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