GNU bug report logs - #25611
26.0.50; dired-do-compress unpacks .tgz files

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Mike Kupfer <mkupfer <at> alum.berkeley.edu>

Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2017 03:51:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 26.0.50

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Message #29 received at 25611 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 25611 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: ohwoeowho <at> gmail.com, Mike Kupfer <mkupfer <at> alum.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: bug#25611: 26.0.50; dired-do-compress unpacks .tgz files
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 13:13:51 -0500

Comments from rms:

http://lists.gnu.org/r/emacs-devel/2018-11/msg00268.html

    It does not literally make sense to "decompress" an archive.  Any kind
    of archive.  That stretches the meaning of "decompress".

    Such stretching might be ok, if it led to no confusion or conflict.
    However, what we see is that it does lead to confusion.  So Z should
    not unpack archives -- not even zip archives.

    Instead, we should have a different letter for unpacking archives.
    I suggest moving dired-do-find-regexp to F
    ad defining A to unpacking an archive.
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