From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: tgz extension and dired-do-compress Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 19:31:33 +0200 Message-ID: <83lg5w9956.fsf@gnu.org> References: <875zx1xgiq.fsf@mat.ucm.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1542130228 17443 195.159.176.226 (13 Nov 2018 17:30:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 17:30:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Uwe Brauer Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 13 18:30:24 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gMcW7-0004Lx-Dh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Nov 2018 18:30:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55405 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gMcYD-0001j9-TB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Nov 2018 12:32:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46105) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gMcXZ-0001ir-GR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Nov 2018 12:31:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gMcXV-000426-E5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Nov 2018 12:31:53 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:44478) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gMcXP-00040j-T1; Tue, 13 Nov 2018 12:31:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=4979 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gMcXK-00024f-AW; Tue, 13 Nov 2018 12:31:40 -0500 In-reply-to: <875zx1xgiq.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (message from Uwe Brauer on Tue, 13 Nov 2018 14:18:21 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:231114 Archived-At: > From: Uwe Brauer > Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 14:18:21 +0100 > > > Hi The setting of the variable dired-filetype-compress-regexp > is a variable defined in ‘dired-filetype-face.el’. Its value is That's not the variable relevant to dired-do-compress. But that's not your problem, as the variable dired-compress-file-suffixes also includes .tgz. > However whenever I try to run dired-do-compress on a tgz archive it is > not uncompressed to a tar archive. What do I miss? I don't know, because it works for me. Did you try in "emacs -Q"?