From: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 52681@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#52681: 29.0.50; dired-do-compress assume tar files contain directories
Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2021 14:56:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zgov6of9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83ee6713nv.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 20 Dec 2021 21:23:32 +0200")
> * Eli Zaretskii <ryvm@tah.bet> [2021-12-20 21:23:32 +0200]:
>
>> From: Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
>> Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2021 11:36:19 -0500
>>
>> emacs -Q
>> M-x dired RET
>> test/data/decompress RET
>> navigate to tg.tar.gz
>> Z (dired-do-compress)
>> answer yes
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-missing "Reading directory" "No
>> such file or directory" "tg")
>> access-file("tg" "Reading directory")
>
> AFAIU, it's a feature. Welcome to the brave new Dired.
I am sure you are joking.
I think replacing this action with a simple buffer refresh would be an improvement.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-12-20 16:36 bug#52681: 29.0.50; dired-do-compress assume tar files contain directories Steingold
2021-12-20 19:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-20 19:56 ` Sam Steingold [this message]
2021-12-21 11:24 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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