> I think the warning is a good alternative. It would be very good if this
> also could handle the case when there is no software available to handle
> the compression (as might be the case on w32) in other situations (than
> accessing tutorials etc).
The warning it currently gives on Debian GNU/L
Stefan Monnier wrote:
Because it's unlikely (how many people are going to disable
auto-compression-mode, really? how many of those will run in an
environment where the TUTORIAL files are compressed? how many of those
will want to read the tutorial?), and even if it ever happens I don't think
i
>>> Shouldn't we better enable auto-compression-mode temporarily if it is
>>> switched off? I mean, if a site-wide installation (or distribution)
>>> compresses stuff like tutorials and, more importantly, things like NEWS,
>>> then Emacs should load these files on request no matter whether the us
Stefan Monnier wrote:
Shouldn't we better enable auto-compression-mode temporarily if it is
switched off? I mean, if a site-wide installation (or distribution)
compresses stuff like tutorials and, more importantly, things like NEWS,
then Emacs should load these files on request no matter whethe
> Shouldn't we better enable auto-compression-mode temporarily if it is
> switched off? I mean, if a site-wide installation (or distribution)
> compresses stuff like tutorials and, more importantly, things like NEWS,
> then Emacs should load these files on request no matter whether the user
> has
David Reitter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 17 Oct 2005, at 15:46, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>
>> Agreed. Except that let-binding auto-compression-mode doesn't do much
>> if anything. Better just check whether auto-compression-mode is
>> nil and if
>> so don't try to load the .gz file.
>
> Seems
On 17 Oct 2005, at 15:46, Stefan Monnier wrote:
Agreed. Except that let-binding auto-compression-mode doesn't do much
if anything. Better just check whether auto-compression-mode is
nil and if
so don't try to load the .gz file.
Seems like I got confused by instructions from jka-compr.el:
Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> FWIW, I find no compelling reason to do that. TUTORIAL.* files are
> relatively small (circa 50KB), so the disk space reclaimed by
> compressing them would be minimal.
Yup.
(A much larger gain is to compress .el files at install time. Since
they're u
> From: David Reitter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 15:52:57 +0100
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> someone might want to change the Makefile to gzip the appropriate
> files on non-Windows machines.
FWIW, I find no compelling reason to do that. TUTORIAL.* files are
relatively small (
> ! (setq file (expand-file-name filename data-directory))
> ! (unless (file-exists-p file)
> ! (if (file-exists-p (concat file ".gz"))
> ! (setq file (concat file ".gz"))
> ! (error "%s does not exist" file)))
> ! (let ((auto-compression-mode t))
> ! (find-
- (insert-file-contents (expand-file-name filename data-directory))
(hack-local-variables)
(goto-char (point-min))
(search-forward "\n<<")
--- 52,73
(if (get-language-info current-language-environment 'tutorial)
current-language
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 file
Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:25:57 +0200
>> From: LENNART BORGMAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>
>> Does not compression create some difficulties for w32 users?
>
> They need gzip to be installed.
> I don't see the point in doing that when the info manuals remain
> uncompressed at the same time.
Well, then let's compress the info files too.
It is not crucial whether we do this. (That is not just an Emacs
question.) The point is, accessing compressed info files works; if
the s
> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:25:57 +0200
> From: LENNART BORGMAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> Does not compression create some difficulties for w32 users?
They need gzip to be installed. So yes, it does add a difficulty,
since stock Windo
From: David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >> 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
> distri
> > Hmm, what about making Emacs install the tutorials compressed by
> > default?
>
> I don't see the point in doing that when the info manuals remain
> uncompressed at the same time.
Well, then let's compress the info files too.
Werner
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Werner LEMBERG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> 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
> 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 m
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
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.)
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