Re: Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory

[Yuri Khan]

On Tue, 10 Aug 2021 at 19:08, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> 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?

I have an unconfirmed guess that some people want not only to see the
code but also hack it. In this use case, it is desirable for M-. to
take them to the actual hackable code so that any changes persist
across Emacs restarts and are seen by version control.