From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: oub@mat.ucm.es, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [found the culprit] (was: [emacs -q versus empty .emacs file])
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 18:37:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83y39v7gym.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f0a3a374-d8ac-45b6-8de6-0e8ccc0ea696@default> (message from Drew Adams on Wed, 14 Nov 2018 08:17:39 -0800 (PST))
> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 08:17:39 -0800 (PST)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> `Z' should be its own inverse.
It is. But there's a problem with "compressing" directories: Emacs
26.1 introduced an ambiguity, because 'Z' on a directory produces a
.tar.gz archive out of its files, but 'Z' on a .tar.gz file can either
uncompress to produce a .tar file or unpack all the files into a
directory.
> It's fine to have another key that unpacks a tar, or
> even another key that both uncompresses and unpacks.
Then someone will complain that 'Z' on a directory is not its own
inverse.
> BTW, I don't see this change called out in NEWS for
> Emacs 26. Is it there and I just missed it?
It wasn't announced, and the manual wasn't updated to say what 'Z'
does in a directory. Shame on us.
> Compress or uncompress marked (or next prefix argument) files.
> A prefix argument ARG specifies files to use instead of marked.
> An integer means use the next ARG files (previous -ARG, if < 0).
> `C-u': Use the current file (whether or not any are marked).
> `C-u C-u': Use all files in Dired, except directories.
> `C-u C-u C-u': Use all files and directories, except `.' and `..'.
> `C-u C-u C-u C-u': Use all files and all directories.
Is "C-u 0' available?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-14 16:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-13 13:18 tgz extension and dired-do-compress Uwe Brauer
2018-11-13 17:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-13 18:15 ` Uwe Brauer
2018-11-14 12:07 ` [emacs -q versus empty .emacs file] (was: tgz extension and dired-do-compress) Uwe Brauer
2018-11-14 12:12 ` [found the culprit] (was: [emacs -q versus empty .emacs file]) Uwe Brauer
2018-11-14 13:15 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-11-14 13:50 ` [found the culprit] Uwe Brauer
2018-11-14 15:43 ` [found the culprit] (was: [emacs -q versus empty .emacs file]) Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-14 15:49 ` [found the culprit] Uwe Brauer
2018-11-14 16:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-14 16:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-11-14 16:57 ` Uwe Brauer
2018-11-14 17:31 ` Drew Adams
2018-11-14 18:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-11-14 19:58 ` Drew Adams
2018-11-14 20:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-14 20:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-11-14 19:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-14 20:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-11-14 21:01 ` jpff
2018-11-16 6:45 ` Van L
2018-11-16 0:51 ` [found the culprit] (was: [emacs -q versus empty .emacs file]) Richard Stallman
2018-11-14 12:21 ` [emacs -q versus empty .emacs file] (was: tgz extension and dired-do-compress) Alan Mackenzie
2018-11-14 13:16 ` [emacs -q versus empty .emacs file] Uwe Brauer
[not found] ` <<87tvkjq2mh.fsf_-_@mat.ucm.es>
[not found] ` <<834lcj8y1f.fsf@gnu.org>
2018-11-14 16:17 ` [found the culprit] (was: [emacs -q versus empty .emacs file]) Drew Adams
2018-11-14 16:37 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-11-14 16:48 ` [found the culprit] Stefan Monnier
2018-11-14 17:22 ` Drew Adams
2018-11-14 18:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-11-14 19:40 ` Drew Adams
2018-11-14 20:33 ` Davis Herring
2018-11-14 21:21 ` Drew Adams
2018-11-15 2:34 ` Mike Kupfer
2018-11-16 0:55 ` Richard Stallman
2018-11-16 2:24 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-11-16 7:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-16 13:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-11-16 22:59 ` Richard Stallman
2018-11-16 16:17 ` Drew Adams
2018-11-16 23:01 ` Richard Stallman
2018-11-17 8:04 ` Yuri Khan
2018-11-18 0:24 ` Richard Stallman
2018-11-17 1:05 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-11-16 23:01 ` Richard Stallman
2018-11-17 7:42 ` Yuri Khan
2018-11-15 4:57 ` [found the culprit] (was: [emacs -q versus empty .emacs file]) Yuri Khan
2018-11-15 9:46 ` [found the culprit] Andreas Schwab
2018-11-15 15:21 ` Yuri Khan
[not found] ` <<<87tvkjq2mh.fsf_-_@mat.ucm.es>
[not found] ` <<<834lcj8y1f.fsf@gnu.org>
[not found] ` <<f0a3a374-d8ac-45b6-8de6-0e8ccc0ea696@default>
[not found] ` <<83y39v7gym.fsf@gnu.org>
2018-11-14 17:10 ` [found the culprit] (was: [emacs -q versus empty .emacs file]) Drew Adams
[not found] <<<875zx1xgiq.fsf@mat.ucm.es>
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