GNU bug report logs - #33880
[PATCH] Compress past NEWS files during installation

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: agrambot <at> gmail.com

Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2018 19:51:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch, wontfix

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Alex <agrambot <at> gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 33880 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33880: [PATCH] Compress past NEWS files during installation
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2019 12:28:16 -0600

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Alex <agrambot <at> gmail.com>
>> Cc: michael.albinus <at> gmx.de,  33880 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 15:33:24 -0600
>> 
>> If you view them in Emacs, then `auto-compression-mode' decompresses
>> the files on the fly.
>
> I usually grep them outside Emacs.

Any chance you have zgrep on your system?

If not, then do you not have an uncompressed git repository directory to
grep?
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