Re: Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 10:10:43 +0200
> 
> > On a typical install Emacs takes you to the .el.gz, not to the .el in the
> > original repo; whereas for C files in takes you to the original repo.  
> > That's
> > what I meant by "work".
> 
> I am not sure if --without-compress-install does it also even for make
> install, but yes, that is why I also run from src folder. It save time
> for compressing files and for copying files over.

What is your problem with compressed *.el files?  When Emacs visits
such a file, it uncompresses it, so you see the original source.  And
yet people keep mentioning the .gz extension as if it were a huge
problem.  What am I missing?