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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow@gmail.com>, 20384@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20384: 24.5; feature suggestion: in dired-mode, "Z" on a directory should create a tarball or zip file
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 11:04:16 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f61c302d-e800-4382-be5b-3ca10ce795b3@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHZoxq8h19y4T02kE5v83nvnkJN2_jVFKe+OECYkrknDeSvsLA@mail.gmail.com>

> I just ran dired, put point on the name of a subdirectory, and hit Z
> (dired-do-compress), hoping that maybe Emacs would offer to create a
> compressed tarball or zip file out of the directory.  Alas, it simply
> said "gzip: /private/tmp/rs5rack12.2015-04-19.1109PDT is a directory".

+1





  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-20 18:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-20 16:54 bug#20384: 24.5; feature suggestion: in dired-mode, "Z" on a directory should create a tarball or zip file Eric Hanchrow
2015-04-20 18:04 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2015-10-13 14:57   ` Oleh Krehel

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