From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [found the culprit] Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2018 19:24:09 -0500 Message-ID: References: <27024.1542249282@alto> <699bb0e3-e2b9-43e9-b5e5-8113a7219d6b@default> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1542500540 11705 195.159.176.226 (18 Nov 2018 00:22:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2018 00:22:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Yuri Khan Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 18 01:22:16 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gOAqt-0002vb-K0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 18 Nov 2018 01:22:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50796 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gOAsz-0001vk-JK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 17 Nov 2018 19:24:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40632) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gOAsq-0001vf-QX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Nov 2018 19:24:17 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gOAsq-00005U-25 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 17 Nov 2018 19:24:16 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:47011) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gOAsj-0008QX-Gy; Sat, 17 Nov 2018 19:24:09 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gOAsj-0003jk-Co; Sat, 17 Nov 2018 19:24:09 -0500 In-Reply-To: (message from Yuri Khan on Sat, 17 Nov 2018 15:04:16 +0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:231218 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > In the majority of the actual use cases, one wants to pack one or more > files or subdirectories located in the current directory, with > directories packed recursively with all their contents. The natural UI > to that is “optionally mark everything you want packed, type a key, > enter the archive name”. If no items are marked, pack the file or > directory at point. This interface would make sense for the new A command I've proposed. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)