GNU bug report logs - #40135
26.3; dired-compress-files-alist

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Lutz Weber <lutweb <at> tutanota.com>

Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2020 18:41:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: fixed

Found in version 26.3

Fixed in version 28.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 40135 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Lutz Weber <lutweb <at> tutanota.com>
Cc: 40135 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#40135: 26.3; dired-compress-files-alist
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 17:08:47 +0100

Lutz Weber <lutweb <at> tutanota.com> writes:

> In a dired buffer pressing c to compress some files there is no option (so
> far) to compress to pax files. This I did to change the relevant alist:
>
> (setq dired-compress-files-alist
>       (cons '("\\.pax\\'" . "pax -wf %o %i") dired-compress-files-alist))
>
> This might be incorporated into Emacs.  Thank you. Lutz Weber

Makes sense; I've now added this to Emacs 28.

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