GNU bug report logs - #33450
26.1.90; NEWS entry for dired 'Z' is inaccurate

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Package: emacs;

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

Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 03:40:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 26.1.90

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #25 received at 33450 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Mike Kupfer <mkupfer <at> alum.berkeley.edu>
Cc: 33450 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#33450: 26.1.90; NEWS entry for dired 'Z' is inaccurate
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.
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