GNU bug report logs - #21637
dired-do-compress and zip files

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Devon Sean McCullough <Emacs-Hacker2015 <at> jovi.net>

Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 15:43:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Ken Brown <kbrown <at> cornell.edu>
To: Devon Sean McCullough <Emacs-Hacker2015 <at> jovi.net>, Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 21637 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21637: Subject: 24.5; dired-do-compress
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 16:56:23 -0400

On 10/7/2015 4:22 PM, Devon Sean McCullough wrote:
> P.S. Obviously foo.tar would be treated likewise.

That's not at all obvious.  I would expect foo.tar to be compressed to 
foo.tar.gz.  I think that's a much more common use case.

Ken
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