Commenting on my post about Emacs and tar fles, Phil remarks that he likes the way Emacs keeps its source code gzipped and decompresses a file transparently when you open it. But he was unhappy that he couldn’t use 【Meta+x】 rgrep to search the code base. Then he discovered that he could do that with 【Meta+x】 zrgrep.
I didn’t know that and just in case any of you didn’t know it either, I thought I’d rescue it from the obscurity of the comment section and make it a stand alone post.
Update: Removed superfluous “the”