Re: TUTORIAL.gz

[David Reitter]

On 13 Oct 2005, at 21:11, Richard M. Stallman wrote:

>     I would like to suggest to enable help-with-tutorial to load .gz
>     files. This would allow site maintainers to compress the files,
>     saving around 600K in installs of binary distributions. (info  
> has no
>     problems with gzipped files, which is very nice.)
>
> It sounds good to me.  Would you like to write the patch?

OK. In addition to applying the patch below, someone might want to  
change the Makefile to gzip the appropriate files on non-Windows  
machines. I have no intuition about how to do that.


2005-10-15  David Reitter <address@hidden>

    * help-fns.el (help-with-tutorial): Allow tutorial files to be
    compressed with gzip.
    * help.el (describe-*): Allow read files to be compressed with  
gzip.
    (view-possibly-compressed-file): new function to read a compressed
    file.
    (describe-extra-packages): moved here from menu-bar.el
    * menu-bar.el (menu-bar-help-extra-packages): moved to help.el.

compress-help.patch
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