I just ran dired, put point on the name of a subdirectory, and hit Z

(dired-do-compress), hoping that maybe Emacs would offer to create a

compressed tarball or zip file out of the directory.  Alas, it simply

said "gzip: /private/tmp/rs5rack12.2015-04-19.1109PDT is a directory".

In GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin14.3.0, NS apple-appkit-1347.57)

 of 2015-04-10 on Eric-Hanchrows-iMac.local

Repository revision: f8bb8c4045e94290aa564c38215e5ea5552ae778

Windowing system distributor `Apple', version 10.3.1347

Configured using:

 `configure --with-ns'

Important settings:

  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Dired by date

Minor modes in effect:

  global-hl-line-mode: t

  diff-auto-refine-mode: t

  projectile-global-mode: t

  projectile-mode: t

  global-auto-revert-mode: t

  shell-dirtrack-mode: t

  recentf-mode: t

  pyvenv-mode: t

  ido-everywhere: t

  display-time-mode: t

  tooltip-mode: t

  mouse-wheel-mode: t

  file-name-shadow-mode: t

  global-font-lock-mode: t

  font-lock-mode: t

  blink-cursor-mode: t

  auto-composition-mode: t

  auto-encryption-mode: t

  auto-compression-mode: t

  buffer-read-only: t

  line-number-mode: t

  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent messages:

~ 

/tmp 

Deleting...done

z is undefined

Z runs the command dired-do-compress

Compress or uncompress rs5rack12.2015-04-19.1109PDT? (y or n) y

Compressing /private/tmp/rs5rack12.2015-04-19.1109PDT...

gzip ("-f" "/private/tmp/rs5rack12.2015-04-19.1109PDT")

gzip: /private/tmp/rs5rack12.2015-04-19.1109PDT is a directory

Failed to compress/private/tmp/rs5rack12.2015-04-19.1109PDT

Load-path shadows:

/Users/erichanchrow/.emacs.d/elpa/edit-list-20100930.743/edit-list hides /Users/erichanchrow/.emacs.d/lisp/edit-list

/Users/erichanchrow/.emacs.d/elpa/browse-kill-ring-20150104.1237/browse-kill-ring hides /Users/erichanchrow/.emacs.d/lisp/browse-kill-ring

Features:

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pcase autoload lisp-mnt mule-util mm-archive network-stream starttls

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gh-api logito gh-cache pcache gh-auth gh-common gh-url url-http tls url

url-proxy url-privacy url-expand url-methods url-history mailcap

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compile comint ansi-color files-x etags ring cus-edit cus-start cus-load

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vietnamese tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek

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loaddefs button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay

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hashtable-print-readable backquote make-network-process cocoa ns

multi-tty emacs)

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