Re: Issues installing packages from melpa

[Philip Kaludercic]

Akber Khan <Akber.Khan@frb.gov> writes:

> Hi all, 
>
> Here's my output from C-h v file-name-handler-alist: 
>
> file-name-handler-alist is a variable defined in  C source code .
> Its value is
> (("\\`\\(.+\\.\\(?:7z\\|CAB\\|LZH\\|MSU\\|ZIP\\|a\\(?:pk\\|r\\)\\|c\\(?:ab\\|pio\\)\\|de\\(?:b\\|pot\\)\\|exe\\|iso\\|jar\\|lzh\\|m\\(?:su\\|tree\\)\\|od[bfgpst]\\|pax\\|r\\(?:ar\\|pm\\)\\|shar\\|t\\(?:ar\\|bz\\|gz\\|lz\\|xz\\|zst\\)\\|warc\\|x\\(?:ar\\|p[is]\\)\\|zip\\)\\(?:\\.\\(?:Z\\|bz2\\|gz\\|l\\(?:rz\\|z\\(?:ma\\|[4o]\\)?\\)\\|uu\\|xz\\|zst\\)\\)*\\)\\(/.*\\)\\'"
> . tramp-archive-autoload-file-name-handler)
>  ("\\.gpg\\(~\\|\\.~[0-9]+~\\)?\\'" . epa-file-handler)
>  
> ("\\(?:\\.tzst\\|\\.zst\\|\\.dz\\|\\.txz\\|\\.xz\\|\\.lzma\\|\\.lz\\|\\.g?z\\|\\.\\(?:tgz\\|svgz\\|sifz\\)\\|\\.tbz2?\\|\\.bz2\\|\\.Z\\)\\(?:~\\|\\.~[-[:alnum:]:#@^._]+\\(?:~[[:digit:]]+\\)?~\\)?\\'"
> . jka-compr-handler)
>  ("\\`/[^/|:]+:" . tramp-autoload-file-name-handler)
>  ("\\`/:" . file-name-non-special))

As long as this list isn't nil, Emacs should be able to handle
compressed content. Are you sure that this variable is not modified
during startup?  Some people like to set this to nil, so as to
accelerate how long Emacs needs to "boot".

> I omitted the documentation portion of the output. Thank you Janelle,
> Philip, and Tassilo for helping with this!

-- 
        Philip Kaludercic