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Re: Help hyperlinks only work when auto-compression-mode is enabled.
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: Help hyperlinks only work when auto-compression-mode is enabled. |
Date: |
Sun, 10 Jun 2007 15:26:56 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
> Hi, Emacs!
> Emacs -Q
> M-x auto-compression-mode
> C-h f revert-buffer
> C-x o <tab> ; Point is now over `files.el'
> <CR> ; To go to the definition of `revert-buffer'
> This gives the error message "Can't find library files.el". The reason
> for this is that the source is actually in files.el.gz, and this can
> only be read when auto-compression-mode is enabled.
Who compressed files.el? I don't think this is a standard procedure.
Or were you using a version of Emacs packaged by some distribution
like Debian? If so, please complain to them.
> This is not good; even though a-c-m is enabled by default, our help system
> should still work if a user disables a-c-m (OUTCH!!! ;-).
Most of the help still works. You just can't jump to the source code
as easily.
I'm not absolutely opposed to your patch, but I don't really like it and
find its need very debatable.
Stefan