GNU bug report logs - #61326
30.0.50; Editing fil in zip file without extension save creates new file

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Adam Sjøgren <asjo <at> koldfront.dk>

Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2023 17:01:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 30.0.50

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 61326 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Adam Sjøgren <asjo <at> koldfront.dk>
To: 61326 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#61326: 30.0.50; Editing fil in zip file without extension
 save creates new file
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2023 19:15:41 +0100
Eli writes:

> I suspect that the fact the archive has .zip appended is because
> that's what the 'zip' program does.

Yes - I skimmed the man-page for zip(1), and there doesn't seem to be an
option to turn off "add .zip if there is no '.' in the filename" -
unfortunately, that would have been really handy here.

> Did you try looking at the command that Emacs invokes when you update
> a member of the archive?

I did not.




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