Subject: Re: bug#29094: dired-do-compress creates empty archives

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2017 11:51:49 +0200

> From: Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]>
> Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2017 20:46:07 -0500
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> So it's actually a bit surprising that the current values apparently
> work for most people.  I guess most GNU/Linux distros set the default to
> stdin?

It's that, and also these commands are probably rarely used.

> I think it's good for emacs-26.

Yes.