Re: Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 20:43:30 +0700
> Cc: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>, Clément Pit-Claudel 
> <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>, 
>       Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> 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.

But the .el.gz files that Emacs displays _are_ "hackable", in the
sense that you can modify it and then save the results.  Right?