From: Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net>
To: 19865@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19865: tar-untar-buffer: should honor default-directory
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 12:47:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871tlsd5hn.fsf@violet.siamics.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <831tlsy8c3.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 14 Feb 2015 14:40:44 +0200")
>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>>>> From: Ivan Shmakov Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 12:27:45 +0000
>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
[…]
>>> "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.
No objection against such a new feature on my part.
Still, the docstring mentions “current directory”, and it’s
exactly the thing default-directory references and M-x cd sets.
Thus the current behavior doesn’t match the documentation, so at
least one of the two’s in the need for a fix.
--
FSF associate member #7257 np. El Dorado — Iron Maiden … 3013 B6A0 230E 334A
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-02-14 12:47 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 [this message]
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
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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