From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#19865: tar-untar-buffer: should honor default-directory Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 14:40:44 +0200 Message-ID: <831tlsy8c3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87a90gd91b.fsf@violet.siamics.net> <834mqoy9h8.fsf@gnu.org> <8761b4d6f2.fsf@violet.siamics.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1423917686 16608 80.91.229.3 (14 Feb 2015 12:41:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 12:41:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 19865@debbugs.gnu.org To: Ivan Shmakov Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 14 13:41:15 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YMc25-0004Zc-Jo for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Feb 2015 13:41:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59592 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YMc24-0001Yv-RH for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Feb 2015 07:41:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59401) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YMc20-0001XO-Da for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Feb 2015 07:41:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YMc1v-00024y-O6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Feb 2015 07:41:08 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:51531) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YMc1v-00024q-Kx for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Feb 2015 07:41:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YMc1u-0006Fy-4y for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Feb 2015 07:41:03 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 12:41:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 19865 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 19865-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B19865.142391766124036 (code B ref 19865); Sat, 14 Feb 2015 12:41:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 19865) by debbugs.gnu.org; 14 Feb 2015 12:41:01 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42771 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YMc1s-0006Fb-EI for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 14 Feb 2015 07:41:00 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout27.012.net.il ([80.179.55.183]:54143) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1YMc1q-0006FO-41 for 19865@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 14 Feb 2015 07:40:59 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout27.012.net.il by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NJR00C00HK63900@mtaout27.012.net.il> for 19865@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 14 Feb 2015 14:35:01 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NJR00B9XHMDYF00@mtaout27.012.net.il>; Sat, 14 Feb 2015 14:35:01 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <8761b4d6f2.fsf@violet.siamics.net> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:99376 Archived-At: > From: Ivan Shmakov > Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 12:27:45 +0000 > > >>>>> Eli Zaretskii writes: > > […] > > > The doc string of tar-untar-buffer says: > > > "Extract all archive members in the tar-file into the current > > directory." > > > which seems to match what it does. Why isn't default-directory of > > tar-data-buffer the right choice for doing that? > > Because the default-directory of the tar-mode buffer may be > changed by the user (with M-x cd or otherwise) with the intent > of directing tar-untar-buffer to extract the archive members > into an arbitrary directory, per its docstring. Sounds like an obscure possibility to me. If we want to give the user an option to extract to a specific directory, why not make that directory an argument of tar-untar-buffer, and prompt for it when the function is called with a prefix argument? That's how we usually let the user change such defaults.