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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2018-11-16 10:19:22 +0200 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2018-11-16 10:19:22 +0200 |
| commit | 936a8f3093f53442bb759880c8cddd5f4eb539a5 (patch) | |
| tree | ef1e0eb86ae48bd97dbc7c3553f864196c0fbaad /etc | |
| parent | 99f99a1fb227ec48f5325b6ccef5815c357b4792 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-936a8f3093f53442bb759880c8cddd5f4eb539a5.tar.gz | |
Document Emacs 26 behavior of Dired's 'Z' on directories
* doc/emacs/dired.texi (Operating on Files): Document behavior
of 'Z' on directories.
* etc/NEWS: Belatedly announce the new behavior of Dired's 'Z'
on directory names and on .tar.gz archives.
Diffstat (limited to 'etc')
| -rw-r--r-- | etc/NEWS | 10 |
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@@ -51,6 +51,16 @@ often cause crashes. Set it to nil if you really need those fonts. * Changes in Specialized Modes and Packages in Emacs 26.2 +** Dired ++++ +*** The 'Z' command on a directory name compresses all of its files. +It produces a compressed '.tar.gz' archive with all the files in the +directory and all of its subdirectories. For symmetry, 'Z' on a +'.tar.gz' or a '.tgz' archive extracts all the archived files into a +directory whose name is the archive name sans the '.tar.gz' or '.tgz' +extension. (This change was actually made in Emacs 26.1, but was not +called out in its NEWS.) + ** Ibuffer --- |