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[PATCH] Compress past NEWS files during installation

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From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
To: Alex <agrambot <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 33880 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#33880: [PATCH] Compress past NEWS files during installation
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2019 21:08:31 +0100

Alex <agrambot <at> gmail.com> writes:

Hi Alex,

>>> 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?

I believe we could find a solution for all these problems. But I still
don't understand why we should.

Maybe you said it already, and I didn't care enough: could you pls say,
what is the advantage of compressed NEWS files, that we must do this.

Best regards, Michael

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