Re: locate-library doesn't find new compressed el.gz files

[Romain Francoise]

"Andrew M. Scott" <address@hidden> writes:

> (locate-library "cc-mode.el") erroneously returns nil, not noticing
> that the cc-mode.el.gz exists.

Is that a problem in practice?

It returns nil because there is no library named "cc-mode.el", there is
a library named "cc-mode.el.gz".  If you specify no extension, it will
use load-suffixes and locate the library correctly.

(All the uses of `locate-library' in Emacs are correct.)

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