From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [found the culprit] Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2018 19:55:38 -0500 Message-ID: References: <27024.1542249282@alto> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1542329669 12092 195.159.176.226 (16 Nov 2018 00:54:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 00:54:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: oub@mat.ucm.es, eliz@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Mike Kupfer Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 16 01:54:24 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 1gNSOs-00032Y-Tn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Nov 2018 01:54:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41575 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gNSQz-0005v5-8E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 Nov 2018 19:56:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51675) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gNSQM-0005t2-Qe for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Nov 2018 19:55:55 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gNSQM-000471-3o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Nov 2018 19:55:54 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:46824) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gNSQ9-00040w-2Z; Thu, 15 Nov 2018 19:55:41 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gNSQ6-0007XH-6Y; Thu, 15 Nov 2018 19:55:38 -0500 In-Reply-To: <27024.1542249282@alto> (message from Mike Kupfer on Wed, 14 Nov 2018 18:34:42 -0800) 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:231174 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] I agree with you about what Z should do, but there is an additional reason. The meaning of Z is to compress or uncompress. Extracting an archive is a different operation; it is semantically incoherent for Z to extract an archive. If we want a Dired command to extract archives, we should add one. It can handle .tgz files as well as .tar files and other archive types. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)