From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Wolfgang Jenkner <wjenkner@inode.at>
Cc: ivan@siamics.net, 19865@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19865: tar-untar-buffer: should honor default-directory
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 20:02:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83pp985scq.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85y4nwii2h.fsf@iznogoud.viz>
> From: Wolfgang Jenkner <wjenkner@inode.at>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, ivan@siamics.net, 19865@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 18:03:26 +0100
>
> The shell analogy might be a bit misleading and is perhaps the reason
> why you seem to be talking past each other: Personally, at the shell
> command line, I don't change to the directory holding the tarball,
> instead I change to the directory where I want to extract it, like this
>
> $ cd ~/src; tar xvf ~/Downloads/foo.tar.gz
>
> This is quite different from the situation in emacs where
>
> C-x C-f ~/Downloads/foo.tar.gz
>
> results in buffers whose default-directory is ~/Downloads, hence the
> reason why doing M-x cd ~/src in the non-hidden buffer should have the
> effect as in the proposed patch.
To solve this problem, I proposed, in the beginning of this thread, to
allow the user to specify a directory where to extract the tarball, by
invoking the command with a prefix argument.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-17 18:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-02-14 11:31 bug#19865: tar-untar-buffer: should honor default-directory Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-14 12:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-14 12:27 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-14 12:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-14 12:47 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-14 13:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-14 13:34 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-14 14:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-14 15:16 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-14 14:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-14 15:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-16 1:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-16 15:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-16 19:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-16 19:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-16 23:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-17 3:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-18 3:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-17 17:03 ` Wolfgang Jenkner
2015-02-17 18:02 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-02-17 5:25 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-17 15:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-17 18:05 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-14 15:07 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-14 16:27 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-16 1:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-16 5:24 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-16 7:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2015-02-16 8:55 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-16 14:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-02-23 11:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-06-25 17:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2015-02-14 15:57 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-14 16:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-14 17:32 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-14 17:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-14 18:12 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-14 18:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-14 19:12 ` Ivan Shmakov
2015-02-14 19:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-02-14 19:42 ` Ivan Shmakov
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