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Re: [found the culprit]
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Clément Pit-Claudel |
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Re: [found the culprit] |
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Thu, 15 Nov 2018 21:24:43 -0500 |
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On 15/11/2018 19.55, Richard Stallman wrote:
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> I agree with you about what Z should do, but there is an additional
> reason.
>
> The meaning of Z is to compress or uncompress. Extracting an archive is
> a different operation; it is semantically incoherent for Z to extract
> an archive.
>
> If we want a Dired command to extract archives, we should add one.
> It can handle .tgz files as well as .tar files and other archive types.
I think this distinction (unpacking vs decompressing) is too subtle. What
should we do on formats that support both, like zip? That is, should Z on a
zip archive just change its compression mode to store, without extracting the
files?
Maybe I'm misunderstanding the proposal?
Clément.
- Re: [found the culprit] (was: [emacs -q versus empty .emacs file]), (continued)
- Re: [found the culprit] (was: [emacs -q versus empty .emacs file]), Eli Zaretskii, 2018/11/14
- Re: [found the culprit], Stefan Monnier, 2018/11/14
- RE: [found the culprit], Drew Adams, 2018/11/14
- Re: [found the culprit], Stefan Monnier, 2018/11/14
- RE: [found the culprit], Drew Adams, 2018/11/14
- RE: [found the culprit] (was: [emacs -q versus empty .emacs file]), Drew Adams, 2018/11/14
- Re: [found the culprit], Davis Herring, 2018/11/14
- RE: [found the culprit], Drew Adams, 2018/11/14
- Re: [found the culprit], Mike Kupfer, 2018/11/14
- Re: [found the culprit], Richard Stallman, 2018/11/15
- Re: [found the culprit],
Clément Pit-Claudel <=
- Re: [found the culprit], Eli Zaretskii, 2018/11/16
- Re: [found the culprit], Stefan Monnier, 2018/11/16
- Re: [found the culprit], Richard Stallman, 2018/11/16
- RE: [found the culprit], Drew Adams, 2018/11/16
- Re: [found the culprit], Richard Stallman, 2018/11/16
- Re: [found the culprit], Yuri Khan, 2018/11/17
- Re: [found the culprit], Richard Stallman, 2018/11/17
- Re: [found the culprit], Clément Pit-Claudel, 2018/11/16
- Re: [found the culprit], Richard Stallman, 2018/11/16
- Re: [found the culprit], Yuri Khan, 2018/11/17