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tar-untar-buffer: should honor default-directory

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From: Ivan Shmakov <ivan <at> siamics.net>
To: 19865 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#19865: tar-untar-buffer: should honor default-directory 
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 13:34:21 +0000

>>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
>>>>> From: Ivan Shmakov  Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 12:47:48 +0000

 >> Still, the docstring mentions “current directory”, and it’s exactly
 >> the thing default-directory references and M-x cd sets.  Thus the
 >> current behavior doesn’t match the documentation

 > It does if you don't use "M-x cd".

	It doesn’t if you C-x C-w into a file in a different directory.

	Or is your point that tar-mode buffer’s default-directory should
	/not/ be honored, unless under some specific circumstances
	(as in: for a just loaded .tar file)?

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