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From: Devon Sean McCullough <Emacs-Hacker2015@jovi.net>
To: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
Cc: 21637@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21637: Subject: 24.5; dired-do-compress
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 23:48:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5A0A0862-8531-4BBC-9CCE-951914A326B7@jovi.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <561586F7.5060208@cornell.edu>

True, I conflated/confused archiving/compressing, somehow inevitable with *.zip but not with *.tgz and so on
yet many if not most users naturally consider the combination as a single concept.

		Peace
			—Devon

P.S. Even if dired-do-archive existed to serve this major use case,
the difference between foo.zip and foo.gz is utterly obscure
and to create foo.zip.gz is insanely perverse.

P.P.S. (dired "/sudo::”) works, can (dired “/zip::”) be far?
Then dired-do-copy would work.  Might be easier for
shift-C to work in Zip-Archive mode as in dired.

On Oct 7, 2015, at 9:56 PM, Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu> wrote:

> On 10/7/2015 4:22 PM, Devon Sean McCullough wrote:
>> P.S. Obviously foo.tar would be treated likewise.
> 
> That's not at all obvious.  I would expect foo.tar to be compressed to foo.tar.gz.  I think that's a much more common use case.
> 
> Ken
> 






  reply	other threads:[~2015-10-07 22:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-06 15:13 bug#21637: Subject: 24.5; dired-do-compress Devon Sean McCullough
2015-10-06 16:57 ` Glenn Morris
2015-10-07 20:22   ` Devon Sean McCullough
2015-10-07 20:56     ` Ken Brown
2015-10-07 22:48       ` Devon Sean McCullough [this message]
2021-12-02  9:12   ` bug#21637: dired-do-compress and zip files Lars Ingebrigtsen

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