From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: 44901@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44901: 28.0.50; dired-compress-file: provide customization for compressing command
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 12:50:16 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <courier.000000005FC0CBD9.000075CF@static.rcdrun.com> (raw)
In the function: dired-compress-file there is hard coded gzip as
compressor:
(dired-check-process (concat "Compressing " file)
"gzip" "-f" file))
It would be useful to have customization as there are various other
compressors that are often used to distribute files such as these, and
all of them supprot -f option:
- bzip2
- xz
- lzip
- there may be others
Customization option could be called dired-compress-command or
similar and it could default to gzip
(defcustom dired-compress-command "gzip"
"Default compressing command for dired. The commpressing
command shall support the option `-f' to force overwriting the file"
:type 'string
:group 'dired)
Then the part here in the function `dired-compress-file' can be changed to:
(dired-check-process (concat "Compressing " file)
dired-compress-command "-f" file))
Thanks,
Jean Louis
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2020-11-27 9:50 Jean Louis [this message]
2020-11-27 10:02 ` bug#44901: 28.0.50; dired-compress-file: provide customization for compressing command Jean Louis
2021-01-23 23:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-10-11 12:35 ` Stefan Kangas
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