Subject: bug#33450: 26.1.90; NEWS entry for dired 'Z' is inaccurate

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 13:23:38 -0500

Mike Kupfer wrote:

> Also, and less important, I got the impression from the discussion on
> emacs-devel that this feature was partially introduced in Emacs 25.
> Wasn't the change in 26.1 just to make .tar.gz and .tgz behave the same?

Yes, .tar.gz is extracted in eg Emacs 25.3 but tgz isn't.

>  (Note that the docstring for dired-do-compress says nothing about
> creating or unpacking archive files.)

Indeed.

One might also ask about tar.xz, tar.bz2, cpio, rar, etc.