From: Oleh Krehel <ohwoeowho@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: master 6d6bf46 2/2: Make dired-do-compress work for *.tar.gz files
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 09:57:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bnbsu012.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83r3kpfuzw.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 20 Oct 2015 17:57:23 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> >> (t ".tar.gz" "tar -c %i | gzip -c9 > %o")
>> >
>> > If you intend to use redirection at the shell command-line level, the
>> > file name that replaces %o will need on MS-Windows to be run through
>> > some function that converts forward slashes to backslashes.
>>
>> Doesn't `file-name-nondirectory' already do that?
>
> Is that what %o stands for? If so, I apologize for not looking
> deeper: relative file names without any leading directories of course
> cannot have any such problems. (Does that mean that this command will
> only support producing the tarball in the same directory which Dired
> displays?)
Yes, only in the current directory, which makes sense for "Z", which
compresses all marked files to a map of their own names in their own
directory.
>> I also want to add a new command to dired that compresses all marked
>> files into a single named archive: the user gets prompted for a name
>> (through `completing-read'+`read-file-name-internal') and the shell
>> command is resolved from that name. I'd like for it to be bound by
>> default, like "Z". Maybe like this:
>>
>> (define-key map "c" 'dired-compress)
>>
>> The proposed key isn't bound by default. Is that OK?
>
> Sounds OK to me, but maybe wait for a while for others to speak up.
The new `dired-compress' would be able to compress to any directory on
the file system.
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[not found] ` <E1Zm01b-0007SW-BB@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2015-10-13 18:28 ` master 6d6bf46 2/2: Make dired-do-compress work for *.tar.gz files Glenn Morris
2015-10-13 18:38 ` Paul Eggert
2015-10-14 7:58 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-10-14 15:17 ` Paul Eggert
2015-10-14 7:56 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-10-14 16:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-14 18:51 ` Achim Gratz
2015-10-14 19:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-15 13:07 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-10-15 15:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-15 19:46 ` Achim Gratz
2015-10-15 16:48 ` Glenn Morris
2015-10-15 17:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-16 10:44 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-10-16 13:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-16 13:47 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-10-16 14:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-20 8:59 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-10-20 14:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-21 7:57 ` Oleh Krehel [this message]
2015-10-21 15:04 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-10-21 16:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-22 10:59 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-10-20 22:51 ` Juri Linkov
2015-10-21 8:00 ` Oleh Krehel
2015-10-16 15:35 ` Paul Eggert
2015-10-16 16:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-16 16:26 ` Glenn Morris
2015-10-16 12:11 ` Oleh Krehel
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