From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#33450: 26.1.90; NEWS entry for dired 'Z' is inaccurate Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 18:17:14 -0500 Message-ID: References: <32297.1542771545@alto> <8z5zwqi91x.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <7j8t1mnppt.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1542928573 7334 195.159.176.226 (22 Nov 2018 23:16:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 23:16:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 33450@debbugs.gnu.org, mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu To: Glenn Morris Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 23 00:16:08 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@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 1gPyCd-0001nY-2K for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Nov 2018 00:16:07 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49691 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gPyEj-0005bM-DP for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2018 18:18:17 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51561) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gPyEc-0005b5-AN for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2018 18:18:11 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gPyEY-0004sl-Im for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2018 18:18:10 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:38547) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gPyEU-0004nn-Me for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2018 18:18:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gPyEU-0007HB-Gz for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2018 18:18:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 23:18:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 33450 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 33450-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B33450.154292864527905 (code B ref 33450); Thu, 22 Nov 2018 23:18:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 33450) by debbugs.gnu.org; 22 Nov 2018 23:17:25 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42805 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gPyDt-0007G1-In for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2018 18:17:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:41372) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gPyDq-0007Fj-EF for 33450@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2018 18:17:23 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gPyDk-00022B-BM for 33450@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 22 Nov 2018 18:17:17 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:59547) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gPyDi-0001wb-OW; Thu, 22 Nov 2018 18:17:14 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gPyDi-0003S5-Fw; Thu, 22 Nov 2018 18:17:14 -0500 In-Reply-To: <7j8t1mnppt.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Glenn Morris on Wed, 21 Nov 2018 15:24:46 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:152695 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. ]]] I think it was a mistake to make Z operate on directories, and a mistake to think of to creating an archive as "compression". It would be better to use A as a command to pack and unpack archives. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)