Re: [found the culprit] (was: [emacs -q versus empty .emacs file])

[Yuri Khan]

On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 11:18 PM Drew Adams <address@hidden> wrote:

> Is it hard to hit two keys to uncompress + unpack?
> I'm a bit surprised to see that this change was made,
> after decades of the pre-26 behavior.  Was something
> big gained by it?

The big gain from uncompressing and unpacking in one go is that you
can skip storing the .tar, and you get to keep the original .tar.gz.
This is both time- and space-efficient.