From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Antoine Levitt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: tar command in dired Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:49:38 +0100 Message-ID: <87tyet8yf1.fsf@gmail.com> References: <736681cb-0917-4394-ba8d-3d0152dea823@s18g2000prg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1300906220 22515 80.91.229.12 (23 Mar 2011 18:50:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 18:50:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 23 19:50:16 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2T8G-0001Iq-Ka for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:50:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60800 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q2T8C-0008LA-Pz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:50:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43566 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q2T7v-0008In-I3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:49:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2T7u-0003Oh-Di for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:49:51 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:38815) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2T7u-0003Ob-4G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:49:50 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q2T7t-00013V-54 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:49:49 +0100 Original-Received: from ney92-7-78-233-218-202.fbx.proxad.net ([78.233.218.202]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:49:49 +0100 Original-Received: from antoine.levitt by ney92-7-78-233-218-202.fbx.proxad.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:49:49 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ney92-7-78-233-218-202.fbx.proxad.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:80357 Archived-At: 23/03/11 19:30, Ed Reingold > On Mar 23, 1:20 pm, Leo wrote: >> On 2011-03-24 01:23 +0800, Ed Reingold wrote: >> >> I am curious too. What did you do in old emacs to achieve that? > > It was an old (1993) file by Jum Blandy called dired-tar.el. > I just tried it and it worked--at least for un-tar'ing. For untaring, ! RET does pretty much the same thing. As for taring, ! tar c RET does the trick, and you can make a macro/function of it. Doesn't seem worth it to have a package do that.