From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: 33450@debbugs.gnu.org, mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu
Subject: bug#33450: 26.1.90; NEWS entry for dired 'Z' is inaccurate
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2018 10:37:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <835zwogpfx.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1gPyDi-0003S5-Fw@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Richard Stallman on Thu, 22 Nov 2018 18:17:14 -0500)
> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 18:17:14 -0500
> Cc: 33450@debbugs.gnu.org, mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu
>
> I think it was a mistake to make Z operate on directories,
> and a mistake to think of to creating an archive as "compression".
>
> It would be better to use A as a command to pack and unpack
> archives.
I agree, and wrote as much in the discussion. But I'm not going to
work on that any time soon, and meanwhile we should have our
documentation describe what this command does in enough detail for
users not to be surprised.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-23 8:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-21 3:39 bug#33450: 26.1.90; NEWS entry for dired 'Z' is inaccurate Mike Kupfer
2018-11-21 9:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-21 14:50 ` Mike Kupfer
2018-11-21 15:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-21 15:21 ` Mike Kupfer
2018-11-21 15:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-21 18:23 ` Glenn Morris
2018-11-21 20:24 ` Glenn Morris
2018-11-21 22:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-22 18:18 ` Glenn Morris
2018-11-22 19:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-22 23:17 ` Richard Stallman
2018-11-23 8:37 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-11-24 0:10 ` Richard Stallman
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