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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2018-11-22 21:05:14 +0200 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2018-11-22 21:05:14 +0200 |
| commit | 477414ac38399a63fd69f3b2457f5716a02b3eae (patch) | |
| tree | 12cfd4892f5de2fe4be25d5fbae151ae592ee2f9 /lisp/dired-aux.el | |
| parent | 9c09b1d23124cc3fc27deb476994b288e66bcad0 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-477414ac38399a63fd69f3b2457f5716a02b3eae.tar.gz | |
Improve documentation of 'dired-do-compress'
* lisp/dired-aux.el (dired-do-compress): Describe in the doc
string the effect on directories and on compressed archive.
(Bug#33450)
Diffstat (limited to 'lisp/dired-aux.el')
| -rw-r--r-- | lisp/dired-aux.el | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/dired-aux.el b/lisp/dired-aux.el index eaf5f257012..2800bbe9021 100644 --- a/lisp/dired-aux.el +++ b/lisp/dired-aux.el @@ -1225,7 +1225,12 @@ return t; if SYM is q or ESC, return nil." ;;;###autoload (defun dired-do-compress (&optional arg) - "Compress or uncompress marked (or next ARG) files." + "Compress or uncompress marked (or next ARG) files. +If invoked on a directory, compress all of the files in +the directory and all of its subdirectories, recursively, +into a .tar.gz archive. +If invoked on a .tar.gz or a .tgz or a .zip or a .7z archive, +uncompress and unpack all the files in the archive." (interactive "P") (dired-map-over-marks-check #'dired-compress arg 'compress t)) |