Re: Bug Loading *.el.gz files into GNU/Linux Emacs.

[Davin Pearson]

Curiously enough, when I run "find" on font-core.el and font-core.el.gz
it comes back with the following messages.  Notice how font-core.el.gz
doesn't exist on my system.

$ find /usr/share/emacs/emacs-28.1 -name font-core.el
/usr/share/emacs/emacs-28.1/lisp/font-core.el
$ find /usr/share/emacs/emacs-28.1 -name font-core.el.gz
$

Here is the result of finding *.el.gz files

$ find /usr/share/emacs/emacs-28.1 -name *.el.gz

When I gzip the file calculator.el here is the result
of find:

$ find /usr/share/emacs/emacs-28.1 -name *.el.gz
/usr/share/emacs/emacs-28.1/lisp/calculator.el.gz

I can load calculator.el.gz and calculator.el shows up on my screen
as it should.

So the source of the bug loading font-core.el baffles me.

On Tue, 26 Jul 2022 at 23:54, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: Davin Pearson <davin.pearson@gmail.com>
> > Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2022 13:19:15 +1200
> >
> > When I try the following
> >
> > C-h f global-font-lock-mode-check-buffers
> >
> > Press RET on the hyperlink font-core.el
> >
> > I comes back at you with the following
> > verbatim text:
> >
> >   r-xrwS-w- 15810023/15240742 995161187 ;;; font-core.el --- Core
> interface to font-lock  -*- lexical-binding:
> > t; -*-
> >
> > ;; Copyright (C) 1992
>
> I cannot reproduce this: for me it shows the definition of that
> function (after uncompressing font-core.el.gz).
>
> Can you visit .el.gz files in Emacs? does that work?  If not, I guess
> your gzip installation needs fixing.
>
> P.S. Please in the future report any problems you have with Emacs
> using "M-x report-emacs-bug RET", and if you are unsure whether it's a
> bug or a cockpit error, post to help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org first.  This
> list is not the best place for such discussions.
>