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Re: Emacs & Lisp question
From: |
Johan Bockgård |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs & Lisp question |
Date: |
Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:40:04 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110009 (No Gnus v0.9) Emacs/23.0.94 (gnu/linux) |
Ben Badgley <mortecanine@peoplepc.com> writes:
> Can you use compressed Lisp code? Will it evaluate, compile and evaluate?
>
> The reason I ask is due to looking at the Emacs directory. The Lisp
> code directory sure does eat up a lot of space. So, it came to mind,
> "why not compress each of those buggers and let the interpreter use
> them from the archives?"
Emacs will handle compressed files automatically provided that
auto-compression-mode is used (it's on by default in Emacs >= 22). Also,
compressed .elc files should work just fine.