Re: Easy configuration of a site-lisp directory

[Arthur Miller]

Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> writes:

> 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.

I actually usually don't, but that is a valid reason too. If I hack
something in Emacs, I copy that piece of code somewhere else, or entire
file and use that instead.