bug#40135: 26.3; dired-compress-files-alist

bug#40135: 26.3; dired-compress-files-alist

[Lutz Weber via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors]

In a dired buffer pressing c to compress some files there is no option (so
far) to compress to pax files. This I did to change the relevant alist:

(setq dired-compress-files-alist
      (cons '("\\.pax\\'" . "pax -wf %o %i") dired-compress-files-alist))

This might be incorporated into Emacs.  Thank you. Lutz Weber


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bug#40135: 26.3; dired-compress-files-alist

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Lutz Weber <lutweb@tutanota.com> writes:

> In a dired buffer pressing c to compress some files there is no option (so
> far) to compress to pax files. This I did to change the relevant alist:
>
> (setq dired-compress-files-alist
>       (cons '("\\.pax\\'" . "pax -wf %o %i") dired-compress-files-alist))
>
> This might be incorporated into Emacs.  Thank you. Lutz Weber

Makes sense; I've now added this to Emacs 28.

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