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: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Alex <agrambot <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 33880 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33880: [PATCH] Compress past NEWS files during installation
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2019 20:51:59 +0200

> From: Alex <agrambot <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: 33880 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2019 12:28:16 -0600
> 
> > I usually grep them outside Emacs.
> 
> Any chance you have zgrep on your system?

It's a Posix shell script, so not very useful on MS-Windows.

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

Not on every machine I work on.  Besides, sometimes I need to look in
a released Emacs, whose sources are in a separate tree.
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